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We get so caught up in Jesus-as-Hero, in Luke Skywalker Jesus, Aladdin Jesus, Diamond in the Rough Jesus because that seems achievable to us. If we just work hard enough, we can go from the margins to the center, from Bethlehem to Jerusalem, from the manger to the throne.
We shy away from what Jesus actually said, because we can never do that. We would never give up our glory, we lust after glory. And even if we would, we don't have the power. We can't be the highest and make ourselves the lowest, because we're not high enough to start with.
It is not Christ's power that frightens us, it is His goodness. We choose not to understand that His goodness and His greatness are inextricable from each other, are in some sense identical to each other.
We don't want to see the Jesus that was always already infinitely more than we could ever be, choosing to be less than we would ever choose to be. And yet, that, not the heroic fable, is the actual story the Gospels are telling us.
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