“Not everyone who tells me….”

In the world of rush, tension, and material burden, human qualities – such as humility and silence, lose their value and are relegated to the past, they have their place and justification. We see it in the example of John the Baptist. Jesus also said about him: “Among the children of women there has not been born a greater…” and continues “…Even the last in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he” (Mt 11:12). There are personalities among us who do not gain admiration, respect and seriousness with broad elbows, for example, verbosity, violence and the like, but with their heart, which manifests itself in qualities rooted in silence and humility.

We realize that a person who gets into the power of pride usually becomes a source of conflict. He is not critical of himself. He does not accept words of truth. He likes flatterers and their ilk. He sees enemies in those who want to help him. It’s a pity that today such people don’t have clowns like the rulers of the past. The jester could tell the truth to the master, even if he often earned a fight for it.

In his love, Jesus thinks of us when he places the virtues of humility and silence on our hearts. Humility is a difficult virtue; therefore, its acquisition requires a lot of strength on our part. And yet, Jesus turns to everyone with a challenge: “For now the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence and violent people seize it” (Mt 11:14) because only with Jesus every yoke and burden becomes pleasant and light.

The Lord did not choose the wise men of this world as his instrument for leading his people and interpreting his revelation. God still chose the weak and small of this world for his service. It was like that from the beginning. He chose an almost hundred-year-old man and a barren woman, for example, Zacharias and Elizabeth, who was over eighty years old, to become the parents of John the Baptist. David to defeat the giant Goliath. Why did you choose these people? To show the power of God acting on them, through human trifles. There is no trace of contempt in Jesus’ words. They are only a reminder of God’s generous gift that we cannot seize the secret of life by our power of knowledge alone. We will understand God’s secret only if we open ourselves to him in humility. Humble simplicity is the best prerequisite for pardon. Christ’s words “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,

We will end with St. Augustine, who says: “We know God through his love.” And today Jesus presented himself to us again as “quiet and humble”.