“I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to little children.”
It is as if Jesus is here on a kind of anti-intellectual tour, something Paul seems to do, too, when he makes almost the same remarks about the foolishness of those wise in the eyes of the world, and the wisdom of those wise in the eyes of God.
The true goal of spirituality is not intellectual insight, but divine wisdom. A mere intellectual grasp of spiritual things is insufficient. What Jesus recommends in today's reading (Matthew 11:25-27) is childlike openness to God's mysteries. God himself is a mystery. Without an ever-open attitude to the mystery of God, we could easily miss him. What is a mystery? Mystery isn't something that you cannot understand—it is something that you can endlessly understand!
We're standing in the middle of an awesome mystery—life itself!—and the only appropriate response before this mystery is humility and childlike openness. Let us go into the mystery: not to hold God but to let God hold us. Not to hold reality but to let reality hold us. Let life hold us. And, mind you, God comes to us disguised as life itself. The myriad forms of life in the universe are merely parts of the One Life—that many of us call “God.” Let's not miss Him. Let's embrace the mystery of Life, or rather be embraced by Life itself!
God refuses to be known, but can only be loved and enjoyed. All we can do is jump on this train, which is already moving. All we can do is to enjoy the flow of the river, which is already flowing. Let us not push the river! But just enjoy the flow.
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