Verse of the day: Call me and I will answer you; I will tell you big, hidden things you don’t know (Jeremiah 33. 3).
There are different translations of this verse. One translation reads as follows: 11 Do I tell you big and firm things? another: “Great and unfathomable things. ” Now there are special and reserved things in the experience of the believer. Not all developments in the spiritual life are equally easy to achieve. There are common dispositions and feelings of repentance, faith, joy, and hope enjoyed by the entire family of God. However, there is a higher sphere of ecstasy, communion and conscious union with Christ; But this higher sphere is far from being a common home for believers. Not all of us have the privilege of the Apostle John, who learned from Jesus, or that of the Apostle Paul, who was taken to the third heaven. There are moments in the knowledge of the things of God that the eagle eyes and the minds of philosophers have never been able to contemplate. Only God can take us to such heights. However, the chariot in which He takes us to these heights and the fire horses to which the chariot is subjected are persevering prayers. Persevering prayers triumph before the God of mercy: “In the power of his age, he fought against God; he fought with the angel and won; she wept and asked for mercy; at Bethel he found God, and has God spoken to us? (Hosea 12. 3. 4). Such prayers lead the believer to Mount Carmel, allowing him to fill the sky with clouds of blessing and the earth with showers of mercy. Persevering prayers show the believer the inheritance reserved. They lift us up and transfigure us until, in this world, we are like our Lord. If you want to achieve something high and extraordinary, look at the Rock that is higher than you (see Psalm 61. 2), looking with the eyes of faith, through the window of persistent prayer. When you open the window from your side, it will not lock from the other side.