Jesus invites little children to come to Him. The Apostle Paul, a brilliant religious scholar, declares emphatically in his letter to the Corinthians that he values God’s power much more than his own intellect. What the worldly wise consider foolishness says Paul, is in fact the profoundly simple wisdom of God, who does not reject those who consider themselves to be wise intellectuals but acknowledges that they are often disposed to reject Him. (1 Corinthians 1:17-31).
There is surely no greater arrogance than the presumption of philosophers with puny educations and bloated egos to dictate terms to their Creator, or to reject as unacceptable the moral laws governing His Creation. God’s estimation of such fools is laid out in Jesus’ withering condemnation of Scribes and Pharisees recorded in Matthew 23. Alas, those who are wise in their own sight are blinded to the wonderful truth reflected throughout Scripture that God makes Himself accessible to all who seek Him, starting with the least among us.
This is not to say that the Bible is a simple book: its revelations introduce us to the mind of God and sketch in some detail His eternal purpose, while at the same time exposing the clouded inner depths of the human condition. It is a big canvas depicting a vast scale of truth.
Central to the Book is the theme highlighting our separation from our Creator and the consequences of our willful decision to disobey Him. Always tied to this narrative is the detail of God’s extraordinary measures to win us back to Him — a story that is painful and hopeful and ultimately joyful in its scope, told and re-told so that only the willfully blind could fail to grasp the implications of the drama that begins in Genesis chapter 3 and is carried through the incredible solution to the sin problem so vividly portrayed in Exodus 12, before culminating in the life, death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ recorded in the Gospels.
It doesn’t take a genius to find eternal comfort in such truth.