Quiet and humble in heart… God not only makes himself known, but he also becomes an eternal reward.

Many have not forgotten that the people around them are not just strangers. They are not silent. They include paramedics, paramedics, various uniformed brothers and sisters. Jesus reminds us: “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little ones” (Mt 11:25); he asks for us to learn his words in our lives: ” Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls” (Mt 11:29).

The message he brought to the world that we should adopt and follow in our Christian life. He calls those who adopt his little ones. Jesus is not against wisdom and reason, but he is against pride and conceited wisdom, often just plain stupidity. Several times Jesus encountered this kind of behavior of people who, with their indifference, stubbornness, and inattention, not only hurt his heart but also misled and scandalized others around him. They were the ones who saw and managed the nation. He did not reproach them for their science and learning but for their pride, which prevented them from accepting the truth. Pascal writes: “The heart has reasons that reason does not know”. Jesus does not despise courage, learning, wisdom, and diligence, but what is connected with pride, such as arrogance, exalting oneself, underestimating others, and recognition. Pride closes a person’s path to the truth. A person can be wise like Solomon, but if he does not have the simplicity and innocence of a child’s heart, he closes himself from the truth, and in the end, he can be worse for the house than a simple person without education, but who is honest, humble, and open to the truth. Jesus declared himself to be the Truth (cf. Jn 14:6).

It doesn’t take much, and we understand the words “learn from me, for I am meek and humble in heart” (Mt 11:29), because they are a sign of God. As Jesus sees the Father, so when we see Jesus act, we should learn to act according to him; that means that when we are toiled and overburdened and act in his spirit, quietly and humbly, our yoke will become easy, and our burden light because he will be with us. Our earthly and eternal happiness is tied to whether we follow Jesus’s example. That is why he addresses us with the words: “Learn from me” (Mt 11:29). It is the wish of Jesus that humility and quietness of heart should also become our virtues. St. Bernard sees humility as the foundation of every Christian virtue. He says: ” There is no other virtue in the spiritual life without humility.”.” It is not enough for us to know the theory but to implement the words of Jesus about humility and silence in practice. In a world of haste, 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. Some personalities do not gain admiration, respect, and seriousness by broad elbows, verbosity, violence, and the like but by their heart, manifested by qualities rooted in silence and humility.