“To have several doubts at these crucial times, doubts about everything — His true identity, that there was some wise and good purpose in all His hardships which He could not understand at this time, and in short, about everything He had learned in the years previously — was inevitable. Often He wondered whether He was not under some illusion, whether all His previous knowledge was not the product of imagination, etc. And always Lucifer would be instantly at His side on these occasions and strengthen such thoughts.

“Being a man, having matter between Him and absolute truth, it is easily perceivable how extremely hard it was for Him to remain faithful to God and not give in. If the conditions of His task were not such that even He must have doubted at times, His task would not have been so infinitely magnificent! Therefore, Christ had to have the same obstacles of matter as every other human being, only intensified to a maximum degree! Material substance is a curtain, and man has to grope to open that curtain. Jesus Christ had to do the same, only in conditions that, even with these explanations, you cannot vaguely appreciate how extremely difficult they were. To remain on the right path under these circumstances without fully understanding — my friends, you cannot really know what it means. And having the humility to put God, in spite of all these passing thoughts of doubt, above everything, even above His suffering and above His not understanding why, was the task. And indeed it seemed almost impossible that anyone could do it. But Jesus Christ did!”With this, Christ had not only fulfilled the conditions by which the world of darkness could never, at any time, claim that God’s laws are not just, but, at the same time, He also set an example for everyone born after Him, my friends! So when you are in suffering and you do not understand why, if you can think of Jesus Christ in connection with the true story of His salvation and if you can bring yourself to imagine His sufferings as something real, not some imaginary legend, but as real as your own sufferings, only so much worse, perhaps then it will be so much easier for you to follow in His footsteps, to follow in His path and remain in humility and let God take over, wherever your life is concerned.(PL#22)