The ways of God are certainly so different from the ways of the world, and similarly God’s thoughts are so different from man’s thoughts.
While the world looks for ability and capability, God looks at simplicity and humility.
And while the world praises efficiency and productivity, God works though charity and mystery.
In the gospel, when Philip looked at the crowds, he saw difficulty and insufficiency.
But through the charity of a small boy who had five barley loaves and two fish, God showed that nothing is impossible, and that with whatever little that is offered, there will be plenty left.
Indeed, the power of God works wonderfully in the little and the lowly.
And in the 1st reading, the wisdom of the respected Gamaliel was expressed profoundly when he said:
If this enterprise, this movement of theirs, is of human origin, it will break up of its own accord; but if it does in fact come from God, you will not only be unable to destroy them, but you might find yourselves fighting against God.
Gamaliel understood that God’s ways are not man’s ways, and the way to understand how God thinks and how God acts is through charity and humility.
With charity and humility, we will be able to see the wonders of God in the little and lowly.