Into a world oppressed and torn,
Of boundless hate and forces wild,
Where men were hungry, lost, forlorn,
God sent a child.

Into a world of maimed and dead,
Of nations each with selfish plan,
Where men were leaderless, or misled,
God sent a man.

And when an age has lost its way,
And power is valued more than men,
In lives where He has voice and sway,
God comes again.

John Morrison
 
 
 
How could Jesus be God, if He lived and walked on the Earth like a man?

Jesus said, "I and my Father are One."--John 10:30. Before being born to Mary and living in a fleshly human body, He and His Heavenly Father were together in very close personal Heavenly fellowship, something He had to forsake while He was down here on Earth.

The Bible tells us, "In the Beginning was the Word (Jesus) and the Word was with God and the Word was God. All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made...And the Word (Jesus) was made flesh and lived among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the one and only Son of the Father."--John 1:1,2,14.

Just before He was arrested and crucified, knowing that He would soon be reunited with His Heavenly Father, Jesus prayed: "And now, Father, glorify Me along with Yourself and restore Me to such majesty and honor in Your presence as I had with You before the World was made...for You loved Me before the foundation of the World."--John 17:5,24.
Why does Jesus frequently refer to Himself in the Gospels of the New Testament as "the Son of Man"?

He called Himself the Son of Man because He was human, He was born of a woman just like the rest of us. He had the same kind of body that we have, He had the same feelings that we have, the same human limitations we have, He felt the same kind of weariness and pain.

The Creator of all things willingly stripped Himself of His unlimited power and became a tiny helpless infant. The Source of all wisdom and knowledge had to study and learn to read and write. He left His throne in Heaven where innumerable angels worshipped Him, where all the forces of the Universe were at His command, and He took the place of a servant--scoffed at, ridiculed, persecuted and ultimately killed by the very ones He came to save.

The Bible tells us that Jesus is "a High Priest Who is touched with the feeling of our weaknesses, for He was in all points tempted the same way we are, yet without sin."--Hebrews 4:15. Imagine!--The Son of God literally became a citizen of this World, a member of humanity, a man of flesh, in order to reach us with His Love, prove to us His compassion and concern, and help us to understand His Truth in simple childlike terms that we could grasp.

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