Jeremiah 33:3 is known in the Enduring Word Bible Commentary as the promise from prison. Our modern day prisons are true, but some today are imprisoned to debt, status, titles, sexual immorality, and idolatry. We idolize and try to be live like those on reality shows. We spend money like we are on reality shows also. All who suffer from this imprisonment also suffer from anxiety, depression, and loneliness.
This scripture is a way to begin again. Calling on the Lord and asking Him to show you great and unsearchable things you did not know is the first step towards freedom. Great and mighty things are spoken of in Jeremiah 33: 1-3. They are the great things that bring freedom and restoration.
Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah a second time, while he was still shut up in the court of the prison, saying, “Thus says the LORD who made it, the LORD who formed it to establish it (the LORD is His name): ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know."
Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know: God invited Jeremiah and all who heard to come to Him in faith-filled prayer, confident of His answer. This promise is especially remarkable considering the circumstances: enduring the terror of a siege and the soon fulfillment of promised judgment. As the judgment was even at the door, God spoke of word of hope and invitation and faith to Jeremiah and Jerusalem. He is still speaking to you today.
i. “He cries to us, Call unto Me, call unto me. Little prayer, little blessing; more prayer, more blessings; much prayer, much blessing.” (Meyer)
ii. Mighty things: “The MT besurot (RSVhidden things) usually means ‘that which is inaccessible’, and here that which is beyond the normal reach of human knowledge.” (Harrison)
iii. “The things to be revealed are ‘unsearchable’ (basur, literally, ‘inaccessible’) because they are beyond the grasp of human knowledge. The principle adjective basur is used of the strongly fortified cities of Canaan in Deuteronomy 1:28 (‘walled up’); here it refers to matters so far beyond human insight that they require divine revelation.” (Feinberg)
God's number is never busy. He always answers. All you have to do is call and wait for Him to answer you. The first step is to surrender and then give Him a ring.
