“Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.”
—Jeremiah 33:3.
Two years ago at our oldest granddaughter’s high school graduation, a Scripture verse was read as each graduate walked across the stage to receive his or her diploma. The verse had been chosen by the student’s high school advisor. The above verse was read as Langley received her diploma. What an amazing promise to hold onto for the rest of her life.
We only need to call to God, and God will answer. God will tell us unimaginable things that we need to know. Calling on God can mean praying for God’s presence; but it also can mean sitting in silence and waiting for God’s presence inside and outside of us to become manifested. It can mean being open to seeing God, Christ, in others. It can mean experiencing God in all of creation and learning how to protect it and care for it. It can mean being open to receiving the love of Christ from another. I have mentioned only a few of the many ways that God asks us to make that call.
The second part, the answer, comes to us through so many different avenues as well. If we expect to hear a voice or receive a sign a few minutes after we make our dial-up to God, we may be disappointed. Direct access and connections to God are beyond our comprehension. Yet answers can come at the most unexpected times, and often are presented to us by the least likely people. At times answers are given by those we barely know, and we can get them even from people we consider our adversaries. Sometimes our bodies provide us with an answer, showing us that we have more or less energy for a calling. Sometimes the answers come to us years later. Our only job is to be open and receptive to God’s answers.
How will we know God’s answer? Jeremiah tells us we will receive knowledge we never expected to acquire. The 12-step promises can be helpful: “We will know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.” —The Big Book of Alcoholic Anonymous, pp. 83-84.
Feeling and knowing the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:22-23 is another means of realizing we have received an answer. We become aware that we are living in “love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.”
I know I am not telling Langley anything she does not already know.
This verse indeed was already written on her heart.
Joanna . joannaseibert.com