Wednesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time
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Wednesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time
Mt 11:25-27
We live in a world where many people want to be the best, want to achieve the highest, and desire to be the most intelligent before others.
In one class in my seminary, my professor asked us a question: Who is the most intelligent or smartest person in the community? We came up with many answers, like the guy who reads a lot of books or knows a lot. Finally, the professor answered, "It is the one who is the humblest as a child."
In the Gospel, the wise and the learned are arrogant scribes or Pharisees who consider themselves righteousand have much knowledge. They are like closed vessels, which cannot be poured into them.
But who is the little one or the childlike? They are the lowly people, like slaves, widows, orphans, and the sick abandoned by society. The little ones often have a simple and humble attitude, knowing they are limited, broken, and dependent; they always open their hearts to listen to God's words like a dry land waiting for rain.
The history of the Church shows that God always favors the childlike. His way is so different from the world's. While the world selects the learned and great, God chooses the little ones to do great works.
The most outstanding example is Jesus Christ, who is the wisest, the greatest, and who is God himself, but who identified himself as a little one before the Father and even before humanity. Jesus took a lowly human form to share our human lowliness so we may share his divine greatness. That is the whole point of our Christian life: God comes down from on high to become like us and make us like him.
Jesus continues to identify himself as the little one among us at this very altar by giving us his Body and Blood every time we celebrate Mass. Whenever the Mass is celebrated, Jesus comes down from heaven to be the little one, in the form of the Eucharist, so that we may share the heavenly greatness.
We are called to be the "little one," the "childlike" who humbly recognize that we are limited, powerless, and broken before God so that God's power may work in us.
Our reflecting question for today is, am I wise, learned, or childlike before God?