Reality

Does God allow us to understand tangible things so that we can understand the intangible? Is that why he set up relationships the way he did? Is that why creation and beauty elicit the responses they do? Is that why morality works the way it does? Not for the sake of us understanding the thing itself but for us to understand him and how to relate to him better? Are we, when we see "things," intended to move from them on to "non-things?" It seems Jesus was always doing this in parables and stories, analogies, miracles, words, everything. We are to take what we know to understand what we don't? This baffles me, but seems a fruitful bafflement.