BE SIMPLE AND HUMBLE

Wednesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time: Year C Matthew 11:25-27 In today’s gospel Jesus is condemning intellectual pride. What matter for Jesus is not the head but the heart. Brain is nothing without the heart. Brain is useless if our heart is empty. Friends, IQ has no value if all that we have learned make us forget God. Do not then let our intelligence prevent us from recognizing the Lord. It requires humility to know the Lord. “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.” Stay away from intellectual pride. It closes the truth about God. For Jesus the clever and the well-educated people are those who look themselves as infants. Those who are willing to learn new things are the wise and intelligent. A great man is always willing to be little. Folks, the measure of intelligence is the ability to be receptive to God’s teaching. Remember this: Intelligence without spirituality is like a bird without wings. Be childlike no matter what age you are. Behave like infants regardless of your age. Friends let your inner child turn up for it is the gateway for God’s grace and favor to overflow. Blessings Fr. Jhack