Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah.
For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father.
Flesh and blood could not reveal the answer. When we approach the mysteries of God we inevitably come up against our own limitations.
How inscrutable are his judgments and how unsearchable his ways!
We reach a point where we understand what we are capable of understanding and then God leads us beyond that point to the truth he wants to reveal.
Simon Peter said in reply,
"You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
It's possible that we think that we figure out who Jesus is without help. There are certainly good solid arguments that Jesus is who he says he is. But there is a level of understanding of that truth which can only come from the Holy Spirit (see First Corinthians 12:3).
This is why we should be so grateful for the certainty of divine revelation. Scriptures are inerrant. The Church speaking through it's teaching authority is infallible.
I will place the key of the House of David on Eliakim's shoulder;
when he opens, no one shall shut
when he shuts, no one shall open.
It is fixed, firm, and reliable. We know we ourselves have no such stability. We have no illusions about always completely understanding everything. But we live in God's family where he guarantees we will always have access to the truth. It is a place where we can always be open to the voice of the Father revealing his Son to us.
For from him and through him and for him are all things.
To him be glory forever. Amen.
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