Your Home and Health - Ellen G. White

not in person. It is thus that God and Christ are one.
Taking humanity upon Him, Christ came to be one with humanity, and
at the same time to reveal our heavenly Fa-ther to sinful human beings. He
who had been in the pres-ence of the Father from the beginning, He who was
the express image of the invisible God, was alone able to reveal the character
of the Deity to mankind. He was in all things made like unto His brethren.
He became flesh, even as we are. He was hungry and thirsty and weary. He
was sus-tained by food and refreshed by sleep. He shared the lot of men; yet
He was the blameless Son of God. He was a stranger and sojourner on the
earth--in the world, but not of the world; tempted and tried as men and
women today are tempted and tried, yet living a life free from sin. Tender,
compassionate, sympathetic, ever considerate of others, He represented the
character of God, and was constantly en-gaged in service for God and man.
"Jehovah hath anointed Me," He said, "To preach good tidings unto the
poor; He hath sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to
the captives," "And recovering of sight to the blind, " "To proclaim the year
of Jehovah's favor; ... To comfort all that mourn." Isaiah 61:2, A. R. V.,
margin; Luke 4:18; Isaiah 61:2, A. R. V.
"Love your enemies," He bids us; "bless them that curse you, do good to
them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and
persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in
heaven;" "for He is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil." Matthew 5:44,
45; Luke 6:35. "He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and
sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust" Matthew 5:45. "Be ye therefore
merciful, as your Father also is merciful." Luke 6:36.
"Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby The Dayspring from on
high hath visited us, To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the
shadow of death, To guide our feet into the way of peace." Luke 1:78, 79.
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