God chose Christ our Lord
"God Most High, who created us and you, knows that it is in our hearts to seek a Leader. He knows that this Leader must be a man like ourselves, who has trodden the path by which He would lead us: but it is also in the counsels of God, that this Leader, to lead us aright must be more than man, even as the sheep, who have like ourselves the inclination to follow are not safe when they are following other sheep, but only when they are following the shepherd.
Therefore, God Chose Christ our Lord, before He was born on the earth, because in Him the Divine Leadership and the human leadership meet in one, for He is 'declared to be the Son of God with power' (Rom. 1:4), in the Spirit; while in the flesh--He is 'the Son of Man' (John 5:27). God spoke of Him in the prophecy of Isaiah--'Behold I have given Him for a Leader and Commander to the people' (Isa. 55:4). He is by the authority of God the true subduer by constraint, but the constraint of love, and whenever in His days upon earth He called to one or another, 'Follow Me,' it is told us that they arose and left all, to follow Him..."
~Lilias Trotter
Therefore, God Chose Christ our Lord, before He was born on the earth, because in Him the Divine Leadership and the human leadership meet in one, for He is 'declared to be the Son of God with power' (Rom. 1:4), in the Spirit; while in the flesh--He is 'the Son of Man' (John 5:27). God spoke of Him in the prophecy of Isaiah--'Behold I have given Him for a Leader and Commander to the people' (Isa. 55:4). He is by the authority of God the true subduer by constraint, but the constraint of love, and whenever in His days upon earth He called to one or another, 'Follow Me,' it is told us that they arose and left all, to follow Him..."
~Lilias Trotter
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