identity crisis...not

Another interesting thing to me is that Jesus always spoke of the Father. He told the people about God as if God were His God too. 
I wonder if all the while they were traveling, the apostles realized that Jesus was more than the Son of God? Did they know He actually was God?

It was hard enough for the simple people of early Nazareth (and the rest) to see Jesus as a Savior, but had He played the God card, it would have blown their minds. All the signs were there, but tradition had made them expect a different kind of redeemer. The miracles alone were not enough to sway them. 

Jesus spoke with such authority that from youth, the educated listened to Him. He spoke with such passion that His words alone encouraged the people to follow Him. He spoke with such kindness and optimism that He inspired the world, even to this very day, to be like Him. 

So there He goes - speaking, healing and caring. And here we stand, emulating Jesus while knowing He is God. 

Now that we are in the midst of Lent, will we listen like the original 12... or the simple people of Jesus' homeland who knew Him as the son of a carpenter and blessed of God. 
Or will we listen as part of the faithful of all generations and ages, who know that God was really a Man in the body called Jesus, and lived and worked and loved and laughed and suffered and died, so that we all could be saved from our own human foibles. 
I can't figure it out. But that is why I keep writing. Because it is definitely worth the effort to try.