“I did not say to the seed of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in vain’” (Isaiah 45:19)

God wants sinners to earnestly seek Him. He says, “You will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart” (Jeremiah 29:13). “Seek the Lord while He may be found, Call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, And the unrighteous man his thoughts; Let him return to the Lord, And He will have mercy on him” (Isaiah 55:6-7).

In our text, we have an assurance that God will answer prayer. What God has said, believe! But don’t allow your vain imaginings to overwhelm you with despondency and sinful despair. Many timid persons have been plagued by the suspicion that there’s something in God's decree which shuts them out from hope, but here is a complete refutation to that troublesome fear, for no true seeker can be decreed to wrath.

“I have not spoken in secret, In a dark place of the earth; I did not say”, even in the secret of my unsearchable decree, "Seek Me in vain." God has clearly revealed that He will hear the prayer of those who call upon Him, and that declaration cannot be contravened.

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.  For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened … Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it.  Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it” (Matthew 7:7-14).