The Importance of a Jesus Not Knowing the Exact Day or Hour

No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the son talking about himself. So when we read this verse, and we can't help but instinctively ask the question of jesus here, how can you not know? The answer would seem to be because i chose not to know, and because there is a degree of deference on the part of the son to the father. That gets us towards some pretty heavy weight christian theology and bigger things. But hif the text takes us to an easy place, we go to the easy place. And if the text taking us to a more difficult thing that points to larger questions we'll have to tackle