The joy on the 35-year-old actor's face is undeniable. Underneath her smile, though, is a complicated story punctuated with complex questions about the very existence of God and what that would mean for her—a circumstance coloring the unique place in which she now finds herself: Playing a pivotal role in telling the story of Jesus.

Before "The Chosen," Tabish was a commercial actor living in Austin, Texas, struggling to make ends meet. At the time, she felt her passion fading. Acting just wasn't in the cards, she thought.

"[I] was really depressed and not knowing what to do," she told CBN's Faithwire. "I was not working enough to really make ends meet. I was barely making rent and I was in a depression at the time."

She started looking for a different career, feeling as if she was "following some dream that was dead."

Unbeknownst to her, that's when Tabish's agent submitted her for a role in "The Chosen," the wildly popular faith-based series created by Dallas Jenkins, the son of "Left Behind" novelist Jerry B. Jenkins.

Click Here to watch the official trailer for Season 3 of "The Chosen."

Shifting a bit in her chair and brushing her long, dark hair behind her ear, Tabish admitted she has been skeptical of faith and of the Lord. She quickly followed that, though, with another admission: her work on the series, which is entering its third season, has led her to a new place.

"I try to be very rational about things," she said from Camp Hoblitzelle in Midlothian, Texas, the setting of the massive set of "The Chosen." "It's been really hard to ignore that there's something really special about this experience for me. I feel like I wasn't able to—I wouldn't have been able to connect with the Lilith portion of [Mary Magdalene] had I not gone through some painful things"... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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