Revelation is not a right, it’s a relationship

A right is something you are entitled to without any doing of your own.

   

We are told in Matthew 6:8 that God, “…knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.” Yet we are made to ask because asking is not about what we get; it is about the relationship we build with our Father in Heaven through the process of asking and receiving.

Revelation is not a right, it’s a relationship. 

It is true that we are all children of God and as such have the inherent ability to receive revelation. But ability to do something and actually doing it are two very different things.

Revelation is as sacred to Heavenly father as it is to us.  He will not just toss out an answer that he knows will be ignored.  If you first prepare yourself to accept the answer (whether it is the answer you wanted or not) then he will give it. Every missionary has experienced this with investigators.

God intentionally creates situations in our lives that drive us to him because he wants a relationship with us.

When we die, he wants to put his arms around us and welcome us back as friends.  Not because we knew the church was true, but because in the process of acquiring that knowledge we built a relationship with him.

Doctrine and Covenants 93:45
..in other words, I will call you friends for you are my friends, and ye shall have an inheritance with me.