Comfort from Jesus

God has chosen His people unto salvation and everlasting life!

This truth should provide great encouragement to us when we are in trouble, distressed, and suffering tribulation in this world.

The Lord Jesus provides us with words of comfort Himself. In Matthew 11, Jesus excoriates the wicked unbelievers, and the cities that would not believe on Him, even though He had worked great miracles in their midst.

In His teaching, Jesus makes it clear: God's grace is not distributed evenly. If the same miracles had been done in Tyre, and Sidon, and Sodom, they would have repented and survived, Jesus notes.

But astoundingly, Jesus then gives thanksgiving to His Father, that He has hid the Gospel truth from those cities and the unbelievers, and revealed it unto babes!

The unbelievers, from which the Gospel truth was hidden, are described as the wise and the prudent, yet they could not receive or understand Jesus' miracles and Gospel preaching.

But the simple, unsophisticated, helpless, and unpretentious babes, God did choose to reveal it to them!

When we read what Jesus said, we must be careful not to miss the import of it. The wise and prudent ones were indeed confronted with the miracles and Gospel preaching. Physically, they could hear and understand these things.

And yet, God hid the truth from them, and Jesus gave thanks for that!

The wise and prudent were spiritually deaf and blind, and God didn't open their ears or their eyes so they could see and hear what Jesus did plainly before them.

They were unable to receive what Jesus said and did, but God revealed it to the babes.

The world, and sadly, many believers, think this is unfair of God.