Who Can It Be Now?

Luke 11:9-10 (NRSV)

So I say to you, "Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened."

Revelation 3:20 (NRSV)

Listen! I am standing at the door, knocking; if you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to you and eat with you, and you with me.

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It's not the future that I can see,
It's just my fantasy

Oh...Who can it be now?

Men at Work, "Who Can It Be Now?" from "Business as Usual" 1981

This piece from Luke contains the promise that when we knock the door will be opened. Revelation reveals to us that Jesus is the one at the door knocking, and when we answer He will come and eat with us.

Who can it be knocking at my door? Scripture tells us that we are supposed to knock. We are supposed to pray for the coming of the Lord in our lives. We are promised that those who ask will receive and those who seek will find. What's funny about this is that we are not promised that we will be given what we ask nor will we find what we sought.

Scripture promises that when we ask and seek we will receive and find things which benefit us. Since no parent will give a child gifts that are bad for them, "how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!" With apologies to Janis Joplin, we are not promised we will get a Mercedes Benz.It is rather as The Rolling Stones promised, you can't always get what you want but you just might find you get what you need.

This is the future, this is the fantasy which is available to us all. Jesus knocks upon the doors of our lives. To receive all of the joy of a Christian life, we need to answer the door. When we do and when Jesus enters; he will come and eat with us and us with him. We are told we will partake of a banquet with the Messiah.

Taste and see that the Lord is good.