Editing Fast Fridays: 30 Minutes for God (section)

=== scripture to consider ===
We have been discussing Matthew 11:25 and the confirmation bias of the pharisees that led them, even though "wise and learned" to hide God from themselves. God does not hide things from us: instead, what we don't see is hidden, hidden by our concupiscence and biases 

** The easiest example in scripture is when the pharisees see a plain miracle by Jesus and then complain he did it on the sabbath, as in
*** [https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/11:6 Matthew 11:6], [https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/12?2 Matthew 12:2], [https://bible.usccb.org/bible/mark/3?2 Mark 3:2], 
** or when Jesus goes home and was rejected by the people he grew up with: [https://bible.usccb.org/bible/luke/4:15 Luke 4:15]
** the Apostles, too, are blind to the Lord before them (many examples) 
* But the Lord himself warns us directly about not seeing him. In the quasi-parable of the "Judgment of the Nations" ([https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/25?31 Mt 25:31-46]), Jesus tells of the Son of Man "upon his glorious throne," sorting out the goats from the sheep, and tells the goats, Jesus tells "those on the right" (the sheep), 

<blockquote>Then the king will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.  'For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me.'</blockquote>Then "the righteous" sent to the left (the goats)  will protest <blockquote>‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? When did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? When did we see you ill or in prison, and visit you?’

And the king will say to them in reply, ‘Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.’</blockquote>The limits of their reason, they biases and sinful state kept them from seeing God in every brother and sister.