Matthew 21:11-16: in context

After Jesus cleanses the temple, driving out the buyers and sellers and declaring, my house shall be called a house of prayer, he heals the blind and lame who come to him there. And the children in the temple cry out, Hosanna to the son of David! The chief priests and scribes are indignant, and demand, do you hear what these are saying? But Jesus receives the children's praise and defends it, quoting Scripture: yes; have you never read, out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise?

The scene sets the children's simple praise against the religious leaders' indignation. The children, seeing the wonderful things Jesus did, cried out their praise spontaneously and simply, Hosanna to the son of David. The chief priests and scribes, learned and sophisticated, were not moved to praise but to indignation, offended that Jesus received such acclaim. And Jesus received the children's praise, defending it as the very praise God had ordained: out of the mouth of infants you have prepared praise. The simple, childlike praise that the sophisticated despised was precisely what God received and delighted in. This holds a truth about the kind of heart that praises God rightly. It was not the learned and sophisticated who praised Jesus, but the children, with their simple, spontaneous, uncalculating praise. And Jesus received it, quoting Scripture that God ordains praise from the mouths of infants. The childlike heart, simple and trusting, praises God rightly, seeing and rejoicing in him without the calculation and sophistication that hold back. Unless you become like little children, Jesus says, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven; and the childlike praise is the praise God delights in. This searches the state of our own hearts before God. Are we like the children, moved to simple, spontaneous praise when we see what God has done, or like the chief priests, too sophisticated, too calculating, too self-important to praise, even offended by the simple devotion of others? God receives and even ordains the praise of the childlike, the simple heart that sees him and rejoices; and the sophisticated indignation of the learned misses what the children grasped. You have hidden these things, Jesus says, from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. This calls us to the simple, childlike praise that God delights in. It was the children, not the sophisticated leaders, who praised Jesus rightly, and he received their praise as ordained by God. And we are called to a like childlike heart, simple and trusting, moved to praise when we see what God has done, rather than the calculating sophistication that holds back or even resents the simple devotion of others. Out of the mouth of infants God has prepared praise; and we are called to become like little children, praising God simply and spontaneously, with the childlike heart that sees him and rejoices, which God receives and delights in above all the sophistication that cannot praise.

Am I like the children who praised Jesus simply and spontaneously, moved to praise when I see what God has done, or like the sophisticated chief priests, too calculating, self-important, or offended to praise, and can Jesus, who received the children's praise and defended it as ordained by God, out of the mouth of infants you have prepared praise, move me to the simple, childlike heart that praises God freely, which he delights in above all the sophistication that holds back or resents the simple devotion of others?