Daily Gospel Reflection for July 13,2022

Join us as we reflect, ponder, and pray together inspired by today's Gospel.

Today's Gospel: Matthew 11:25-27

The section of the Gospel we hear today is given the heading “The Praise of the Father.” Jesus praises His Father for having “hidden these things from the wise and the learned” and “revealed them to the childlike.” If God loves all His children and wants them all in communion with Him, what does it mean for the Father to have hidden anything from the wise and the learned? Shouldn’t He reveal everything to everyone?

Human thought might easily take that course, but God’s ways are not our ways. Of course God the Father wants all His children to come to Him. But He also knows—in a way we humans can’t—the status of each heart and soul and what each heart and soul needs to heal from previous wounds, to soften, and to be ready to accept the patient love of the Father with freedom. This is a beautiful reality, and it deserves praise.

This love comes, necessarily, through Jesus Christ. “All things have been handed over to me by my Father,” Jesus says. This is the way it has to be. This is the Father’s will. Christ’s life, death, and resurrection are our path back to the Father Who loves us, Who created us, Who does indeed desire communion with each and every one of us.

That communion can only come through humility and surrender on our part. We must learn to be meek and childlike. We must surrender the names we might try to make for ourselves to the Holy Name of Jesus. Even when we have trouble accepting it, we ought to strive to praise the Father for His everlasting love for us.

Ponder:

How can I praise the Father today?

Pray:

Father, sometimes I struggle to accept Your ways and Your love for me. Help me to surrender in joyful humility.

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