Luke 11:9-10

What a glorious promise of Scripture Jesus presents to us here! He could not be any clearer. Everyone calling on the name of the Lord in faith receives; everyone who seeks the Lord with his whole heart finds; and to everyone who knocks the door is always opened. Many verses flood my mind right now but the ones in Jeremiah particularly stand out:11 For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back from captivity.[ Jer 29:11-14 (NIV)
Later in the same book we are told: "This is what the LORD says, he who made the earth, the LORD who formed it and established it--the LORD is his name: 3 'Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.' Jer 33:2-3 (NIV)
I do not know about you, but being told “great and unsearchable things” sounds pretty incredible to me! How very awesome to be privy to such splendor! I am totally reminded of Paul and his “surpassingly great revelations” stated in II Corinthians:1 I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to be gained, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord. 2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know--God knows. 3 And I know that this man--whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows-- 4 was caught up to paradise. He heard inexpressible things, things that man is not permitted to tell. 5 I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses. 6 Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say. 7 To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9 But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. 2 Cor 12:1-10 (NIV)
What Paul experienced was so powerful he could not even speak of it – humbly referring to himself in the third person. The revelations themselves were so great that a “thorn in the flesh” was given him to assist him in keeping his pride at bay. Those must have been some pretty powerful revelations! I do not think Jesus wants Paul to be the only one allowed to hear sweet love songs or revelations from His mouth. His call to all is “Come”! (Matthew 11:28). “There are none of us so close to Christ but that we can’t come nearer, and the secret of our daily Christian life is all wrapped up in that one word of invitation from Jesus, ‘Come.’ That nearness is what we are to make daily efforts after, and that nearness is one capable of indefinite increase. We know not how close to His heart we can lay our aching heads. We know not how near to His fullness we can bring our emptiness. We have never yet reached the point beyond which no close union is possible.” Alexander MacLaren Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! Romans 11:33 (NIV)
“Prayer is, in its most basic definition, a ‘coming’ to God. Before words are spoken or thoughts organized, the fact that we have come unto Him has established prayer. Each time we enter prayer, there is this same coming to God. “Come unto me” are the sweetest words of Christ to echo down through the centuries. Can you imagine a finer invitation? As we pray it would do us well to realize just who it is that invites us to come. It was He who first loved us.” Nick Harrison 1 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Col 3:1-4 (NIV)