He has come from His Father who is God the Creator of the heavens and earth, and is Himself God.

This, however, is not easy to believe. A man reading Christ’s story cannot easily accept it. In fact, it is only believed by the man or woman to whom God gives the gift of faith.

Before a person can believe, he must read carefully, he must think, he must ask himself questions in his own heart, and above all he must pray to God for light to see where the truth lies.

Questions soon arise: If this is God’s plan, why was Christ not born in a rich family? Why was He born in an obscure country of an unknown and poor mother?

No man can ever fully answer them, for no one can fully know God’s mind. But we can get some light by remembering that sin and evil came into the world through the pride and disobedience of our first parents. They put their own self and selfishness in the place of God; and they worshipped themselves instead of the God who made them and placed them as lords of such a wonderful universe. Every sin – my sins too – is the same. I have put myself in the place that is God’s.

Christ came to undo the work of our first parents. He had come to rescue the human race from the slavery of sin – just as through Moses He had rescued His people from the slavery of Egypt . Self-glory and disobedience brought ruin to sinful man. Christ will be the opposite when he comes to lift us up, to restore us to the love and sonship of His Father, Saint Paul writes:

“Yours is to be the same mind which Christ Jesus showed. His nature is, from the first, divine, and yet He did not seek, in the rank of Godhead, a prize to be coveted. He dispossessed Himself, and took the nature of a slave, fashioned in the likeness of men, and presenting Himself to us in human form; and then He lowered His own dignity, accepted an obedience which brought Him to death, death on a cross.

“That is why God has raised Him to such a height, given Him that name which is greater than any other name; so that everything in heaven and on earth and under the earth must bend the knee before the name of Jesus, and every tongue must confess Jesus Christ as the lord, dwelling in the glory of God the Father,” (Philippians 2, 5-11).

When you read the Gospel in the future, it is necessary to keep these words about Christ in mind. Otherwise, you cannot discover the secret of Christ.

OUR GOD - GIVEN MODEL

As Jesus grew into boyhood and manhood, the humble and lowly manner of His circumstances did not change. His family never became rich and powerful. His foster father, Joseph, was a carpenter, and as Jesus grew up, He worked as a carpenter’s boy and helped Mary His mother as any good youngster in a family does.

When He was thirty years old, He left His home and His carpenter’s work to show men the Way (Marg) that would lead them to the Father. But these thirty hidden years also are full of wisdom for the man or woman with an open, searching and reflective mind.