The Spiritual Warfare with the World, Flesh and Devil - Father Arsenie Boca

Jesus formulates a new spiritual order in man. Because He has integrated Himself into the human nature, He is always alive. He comes as supreme living being in us, as a supreme being and as infinite possibility of perfection.
“Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? – unless indeed you fail to meet the test!” (2 Corinthians 13: 5). “It is no longer I who live, but Christ Who lives in me.” (Galatians 2: 20) “…my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!” (Galatians 4: 19). Clement of Alexandria says: “God has made Himself man so that you may know how man is made God”. This is the new man, the new being, the man born from above, the man empowered by Christ with the reflex of eternity, being an outward projection of the divine image, a man of uttermost simplicity. As Jesus is the Heavenly Man who has woven Himself into mortal shape, He affirms Himself to us all and for all ages, no matter what.
Jesus reclaims therefore the confirmation of His historical existence. Yet history has failed from the very beginning and is still at fault. The fact that God has chosen to live as human being is forcing man to make a clear decision as to what he should do about Jesus. This is why our entire history is permanently troubled and our eternity is threatened by the snakes of doubt and contradiction. And this is why it is for Jesus that people have loved and have hated, have slaughtered and have comforted, they have experienced the extremes of self-sacrifice and consuming passion. All that is science, all that is beauty, all that is random quest on this earth, they are all due to Him. He is that inner force inextinguishable by centuries. His remembrance is alive everywhere, from churches to schools, from the belfry top to the dust of the road, from bedside to tomb. For if you bring down churches, and if you erase icons from our homes, the life of Jesus still can be learned from libraries and museums. And if prayer books be burnt down, His life and word may still be learned from literature. Nay, even those who curse Him unwillingly bear witness of His presence.
Empires that once ruled the world have all perished and are forgotten, which would be then the gain of seeking posthumous fame? For many have been famous throughout centuries, yet it is only Jesus Who is still inflaming spirits as in the first days.