A Message For Us

He begins this verse by saying, “Here I am!” He says it boldly and with no hesitation on His part - to get our attention. EXCLAMATION POINT. In other words, “Look at Me!” The God of Glory is taking the time to seek fellowship with His lowly creations! This is a personal invitation. He is not seeking us collectively at this point, but individually!

Just the fact that Jesus would even have a fleeting thought about us is so amazing! In PSALM 8:4, it is written,

‘what is man that You are mindful of him, the Son of Man that you care for Him?’

Can you see His feelings toward us? He is standing and knocking. This denotes continual action. Many people will knock on someone’s door for a few seconds and then go away. The picture here is of Christ standing and continually knocking. Only someone who genuinely desires our company would subject themselves to such inattention. He must really love us to patiently wait for us to answer His knock.

He has the desire to come in, but too many people don’t seem to have the desire to let Him in. One has the desire, the other doesn’t. Could we blame Jesus if he turned and walked away from us? No, not at all, but He never has and He never will. It is we who walk away from Him.

We put things off all the time, even when it is for our best interest. What I don’t understand is …

2. WHY THE DELAY?

"...if anyone hears My voice..."

How can it be that God Himself waits for us and we Him? I am reminded of MATTHEW 23:37, as Jesus stood and looked out over Jerusalem.

‘O Jerusalem, Jerusalem … you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing.’

We can understand the lost and unsaved not responding to Christ. But how can His very own children let Him stand outside and just keep knocking and knocking? We ignore His calling in our failure to confess our sins. We ignore His calling when we spend our days without seeking Him in prayer. We ignore His calling when we forget to read the Bible and when we lose interest in attending church regularly. Does anyone in today’s lukewarm churches hear His voice at all?

What an honor it is that He still loves us! What an honor it is for Him to be concerned with our eternal welfare. If someone famous arrived at our door, we would rush to open the door, wouldn’t we?. We would usher them in and ask how we could accommodate them. But Christ seeks audience with us, and we not only don’t let Him in, we don’t even hear the knock.

He is standing at the door and saying, “Here I am!” I for one feel that the voice of our Savior should never be ignored, and that is what I am afraid that many churchgoers across this land are doing today. In the Gospel of John, Jesus said that His sheep hear His voice and follow Him. Are we listening for His voice? Are we following Him? If we aren’t, can we really be considered His sheep?

I know that we get all tangled up in the life we live here on earth, and we all have intentions of someday, ‘giving our all’ to Jesus, but what I don’t understand is, knowing the end of the story as we do, why do we delay in doing so.