In short, God’s wisdom can only be shared if we are like the little ones referred to by Christ, i.e. when we are humble. We have to be wary of our tendency to seek the truth and wisdom for our own sake, and not for the glory of God. We want to be knowledgeable so we can become more self-sufficient and less dependent on God. In other words, we would just use God for our own interest.
The same is true when we need some rest. We have to be meek and humble, as Christ himself said very clearly, if we want to have the real rest that is proper to us as children of God.
It is a rest that is not only physical or emotional or natural. It is one that involves our whole selves, body and soul resting in the very home of our life who is God. When we are not meek and humble, our idea of rest would get stuck on the natural level.
When we are meek and humble, we would know that true wisdom can only come to us if we believe and follow Christ through our Christian faith. We have to be wary and be properly guarded against the strong pressure to acquire our wisdom from our own estimation of things and from other sources.
We are always in need of faith. We can never say that we have enough faith. We should never be complacent in this regard. Faith is an ever-dynamic thing that needs to grow and grow as well as to inspire us more deeply, thoroughly and consistently.
We need to make it grow to cope with our natural needs. In this level alone, we always need faith to make things very clear for us, even if in theory we can handle the natural challenges and difficulties we can encounter in life.
We cannot deny that there are just too many of these natural challenges and difficulties for us to handle with a certain ease and confidence. Especially these days when the pace of development is faster, and the developments themselves are more complicated and tricky, we need the light of faith to see things properly.
Besides, it is faith that gives the ultimate meaning and proper direction to all our human knowledge and endeavors. It is what gives the original perspective to all events, good or bad, in our life. Otherwise, we would end up confused and lost.
With regard to our rest, we should not just look for it through earthly solutions. Our rest should involve our whole being that is not only material and natural, but also, and most especially, spiritual and supernatural.
Unless our rest covers these latter dimensions, we can never find true rest. We may have some degree of physical relief which, if not related to the spiritual and the supernatural, can only poise us to greater dangers sooner or later.
To be sure, our true and proper rest can only be found in Christ. He gives us the rest that is not only physical. It is a rest that includes all the aspects of our life—emotional, psychological, mental, moral and spiritual. We need to broaden our understanding of rest to go beyond the physical dimension.
Again, this can only take place when we are meek and humble. It’s the condition that opens us to Christ in our need for rest.
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