I wrote this on Facebook. Many thanks to Tim for showing me the value in these types of questions:
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Substitute “Jesus” with “God.” For instance, “when God tells us what animates him most deeply, what is most true of him—when he exposes the innermost recesses of his being—what we find there is: gentle and lowly.” Does that make any sense? Jesus cannot be divorced from His eternal Sonship. He only did what the Father wanted done. Try it with a handful of Dane’s quotes.
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Substitute any other attribute of God. Most especially, substitute any of His more difficult to swallow ones. For instance, “when Jesus tells us what animates him most deeply, what is most true of him—when he exposes the innermost recesses of his being—what we find there is: vengeance and wrath.” And then proceed to say that and quote a bunch of the stuff Jesus said and did that showed His vengeance and wrath. You would, rightly, lose your mind and scream “That’s not true!”
Why can’t we see this when the words are soft and easy? “If God hosted his own personal website, the most prominent line of the “About Me” dropdown would read: GENTLE AND LOWLY IN HEART.” Just writing it makes me shudder.