The Sonship of Jesus Christ necessitates the understanding of Jesus in his relationship to his Father, a relationship that is both fully human and fully divine and fundamentally rooted in prayer. Through our understanding of this relationship as part of the nature of a Triune God, we better understand the role our own Sonship in light of Christ’s and thus, we are provided with a model that can heal the modern imagination, transforming it from a focus on self to one of self-gift.
Jesus establishes and maintains his relationship with the Father through prayer. In Jesus’ prayer, “the Father becomes visible and Jesus makes himself know as the Son” (35). The Father becomes visible through the Son to show his Love for the World, for us. In a very real way, Jesus was very concerned with pleasing his Father, and carrying out his Father’s will on Earth. Through his Sonship in relationship to his Father through prayer and constant communication, we understand what it means to “lead the whole of one’s life on the basis of the affirmation that ‘God is.’” God is truth, and the truth is in the Word made flesh. This is what we mean when we call “Jesus ‘consubstantial’ with the Father”.
Since man is made in the image of God and the glorification of God, we are called to live our lives as an act of worship to our Father, like Jesus did on the Cross. The Lord practiced the ultimate self-gift in acknowledging the power of God by freely abandoning his Body on the Cross so that his death may conquer death for all of us. Out of his death, we experience life by taking part in this worship, in this Love.
Furthermore, Jesus’ experienced growth on Earth as human under the guidance of his Father. Through his growth, we come to understand the meaning of being of a child of God. Even though Jesus physically became a man, he never trusted in his own powers without the Father or sought to separate himself from his God. In this way, he “preserves the innermost core of ‘being a child,’ the existence as son that Jesus exemplifies for us, that he enters with the Son into “being God” (73).
Christ thus provides a model for us because our salvation means ‘becoming the body of Christ.’ Through following the model of Jesus from childhood to his death, we are called to constantly receive ourselves and give of ourselves daily in worship. Like a child, we are nothing without our Father; in fact, we are made in his Image. By doing giving of ourselves fully, we, too, become a place where Word can dwell. We are called to love as Christ loved.
Christian Courier 
Bobby–a really nice job. Especially the theme of worship–that part of this sonship is the gift of our will in Eucharistic offering, in the depths of love offered to the Father.