Blog:Salvation is for the "childlike"? Matthew 11:25: Difference between revisions

  Yes, Father, such has been your gracious<ref>Note the perfect definition here of the word "gracious" when attached to the Father's "will" -- the source of all Grace!</ref> will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him." ([https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/11?26 Mt 11:26-27])<ref name=":1">Being thoughtful or not, we might stumble over a couple clues here as to whom Jesus "wishes to reveal " the Father -- clearly that revelation "processes" from the Father and through the Son (back to St. Thomas: see [[Holy Trinity]]):</ref>

Without straying into the theological implications of finding, or "un-covering,"<ref>"un-cover", "dis-cover", "in-vent" all mean to reveal what already exists, and not to create anew. Uncover and discover are obvious, but "invent" comes form ''in-'' (into) + ''venire'' (to come), i.e. come into something that already exists.</ref> what God "hides," a look at [https://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/3?1 John 3] and the secret meeting with Nicodemus, we can see how God wants us to "uncover" (un-hide) himself through both reason and belief. Jesus tells Nicodemus, quite literally,   

  ''“Amen, amen, I say to you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above.”''