Jesus Christ was the Son of God. His virgin birth illustrated clearly that God, Spirit, was his Father. Everything Jesus did while he sojourned here on earth was done for the glory of God. How faithfully and thoroughly Jesus subordinated the material perception of himself to his spiritual selfhood, the Christ, the real man of God's creating!
Why did Jesus appear on earth? Wasn't it, in part, to show you and me and all humanity how to rise above earth—above the belief that we are earthborn and earthbound? Divine Spirit is our Father, too. Jesus said so. "Call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven," Matt. 23:9. he instructed.
As the Son of God, Christ Jesus' life expressed his spiritual selfhood to show us how our lives can express our spiritual selfhood—man in God's image and likeness. His ability to do what he did came from the consciousness bestowed by God, whom he accepted as the real Mind of man. Jesus' true self, the Christ, was forever conscious of all divine Mind includes and imparts, and of nothing else. The human Jesus relied steadfastly on this pure consciousness that reflects the divine in fulfilling his mission on earth. He did this in the face of every obstacle presented to him by human ignorance, opposition, and persecution. What better way to commemorate what Jesus achieved than to subordinate the material perception of ourselves to our conscious spiritual identity in Mind? And to keep Jesus' example alive in our heart at all times as the definitive model for our own thoughts and actions?
