What was his boon?

It was the **Devil’s** claim that Jesus should
have God make bread for him from stones
since being fed, the Devil said,
and rescued from the dangers to his life
that Jesus surely had to face
on Temple top,
from rulers and authorities
and in Gethsemane
were things that as God’s Son
sweet Jesus knew as boons that he possessed by right,
and should not think that suffering was
his chartered course
or something that would bring him joy.

But God’s anointed one
rejected this. His happiness, he oft opined,
lay in his staying true to all that God
had willed for him to do,
including giving up his life
and witnessing that love, not hate,
was the required response of Son’s of God to injury
and what of his behavior that he called
his followers, when seeking norms, to imitate