The Chosen ~ Preparation and Humanity

Greetings Dear Reader, 

There will be spoilers.  This is your only warning.  This BLOG series will walk through each episode of the first two seasons of the amazing show The Chosen available free to watch at the link.  If you have not seen it, I encourage you to do so.  It is by far the best adaptation of the Gospels to film I have ever encountered. 

As season two unfolds we see Jesus investing time in preparation for the Sermon on the Mount.  There have been opinions expressed offering the idea of Jesus not needing to prepare.  I do not care whether he did or not.  He did tell his disciples when he sent them out in pairs not to consider what they would say because the Spirit would give it to them in the moment. 

On the other hand, even though we see  his omniscience in the Gospels he did not always use it.  He was still all human as much as he is all God.  It is conceivable to see him preparing something important so it would go well.  It is understandable to have Jesus choose his words ahead of time.  

The humanity of Jesus is what causes many to struggle and what we see in The Chosen so clearly.  We have to allow Jesus his humanity so we can allow him to relate to us.  It is the path to his ability to die for us.  It is what allows him to be tempted as we are without sin.  It is what provides the path to the resurrection.  It is Jesus’ humanity drawing us to him because he loves us so fully. 

The Father chose this path so we would be able to see an example of how to live a life of loving him.  Jesus assured us we could do this.  The humanity of Jesus connects us to God in a way nothing else can.  We see his love and compassion at the human level being expressed by the Divine Son. 

If we do not allow Jesus to be perfectly human without sin, then we deny a part of the Gospels vital to our redemption.  I think Abraham understood this when he told Isaac, “God will provide himself a sacrifice.”  The reflexive pronoun can mean both God will provide a sacrifice for himself and God will provide himself as a sacrifice.  The beauty., Dear Reader, he did.  

The human Jesus is the Son of God.  He is also a man who dealt with all the things we have to endure.  He chose not to sin. He chose to love and seek the Father in every moment.  I was talking with my friend Mirinda last evening about our journey to become more like Christ.  Like Jesus says of Tamar in The Chosen, her faith is beautiful.  The simplicity is becoming disciplined in choosing each moment to find Christ and follow him out of love for the Father.   In this, Dear Reader, we find how to be like Jesus.  This is the way home. 

Wishing you joy in the journey, 

Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a homeowner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure store.”
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Every human story is part of the great story that leads to the Father getting everything back to Good. 

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We see his love and compassion at the human level being expressed by the Divine Son.