Hidden from the learned

Wednesday,
July 17, 2019
15th Week in
Ordinary Time
1st Reading:
Ex 3:1-6, 9-12 Gospel:
Matthew 11:25-27
On one occasion Jesus said, “Father, Lord of heaven and earth, I praise you, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned and revealed them to simple people. Yes, Father, this is what pleased you.
“Everything has been entrusted to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the Assimilated Life Experience)
The misfortune of an enemy gladdens a person with a bitter heart, but plunges the godly into prayerful contemplation. A bitter person rejoices over the fall of an enemy because he finds in revenge the perfect balm to sooth his wounded ego. The maxim “Revenge is sweet” is not Greek to the vengeful of heart. It might even be his mantra. The godly, on the contrary will reflect and will allow God’s wisdom to enlighten his perceptive faculties. Then he will remember that a true disciple turns the other cheek because vengeance belongs to God not to man. “Vengeance is mine, I will repay”, says the Lord (Deut. 32:35). What the Book of Deuteronomy is indirectly saying is that the mechanics of revenge deprives God of his right to inflict vengeance upon the wicked.
Revenge is not sweet; God’s vengeance is! For when God’s righteous hand strikes, the justice established is perfect. Still, the man of God will not consider it his triumph. Prayerful contemplation converts the predicament of his enemy into an illustration of how he will similarly end if, like his enemy, he veers away from the path to righteousness. This is spiritual maturity at its heights. And it is available to those who use the misfortune of others as occasion to pray. In prayer God gets the chance to reveal the things hidden from the learned. Not that the learned are dull. It is just that those who pray exercise wisdom more beneficially by God’s guidance.
The bitter of heart who instinctively rejoices over the misfortune of his enemies will also seek out their destruction. He looks at life from what Steven Covey calls the “win-lose’ perspective. His slogan is “Their defeat, my triumph”. But in the process, he self-destructs. The godly, on the other hand, grows in wisdom and grace as the misfortune of his enemy plunges him into moments of reflection. There and then God will fill him to overflowing, pressed down and flowing over in good measure. Over the misfortune of the enemy the bitter person rejoices, but his joy is skin-deep. The prayerful person will contemplate and grow in wisdom and grace. – (Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., D.M.

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