What does the word "come"? It means to leave a place, start moving to another place and go.
When God tells us that we must come to see, we must be prepared to leave a place, a condition in which perhaps we have laid down, the condition that it is preferable to our life, and get moving, just as you suggested the 'Apostle Paul "But I do one thing: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward things which are before " (Fl.3: 13). Leave the past and move forward towards a new condition, come in the simplest sense of the word. On the other hand we often want a confirmation, a clarification of this concept, "come and see." I will try to express it with the following.
In the Gospel of John in the first chapter, we have twice the same invitation, first turned to Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, the other to fellow student Andrea (Gv.1 :39-40), who were disciples of John the Baptist. They had heard Jesus asking him to go behind a question: "Teacher, where do you live?". And He said to them: "Come and see." Actually what he meant that invitation? It meant they had to leave, leave, that place where they had heard the call and make a new experience. "Come and see," meant for them to leave that path you have taken so far, leaving the teacher who had been selected and start moving towards new goals unknown. Who knows how much pride they have claimed to be disciples of John the Baptist, the prophet who among those born of women there has been none greater than he ever (mt.11: 11), who knows what feeling they tried to Jesus, but by faith leave that place and go to the New Teacher: They move their feet Jesus to Christ, not just trying to figure out, see something more in that hour, open ears and eyes . This determination allows us to see their heroism. They understood that Jesus had to follow to see To see you must go, do not stand still, motionless, but making new spiritual experiences, moving from place occupied until now. What is this place? It represents our views, our feelings, our own doctrines, religious concepts that are sometimes fiercely supported without any real knowledge of the Word of God are human passions, fantasies of a man unregenerate. Peter also had his personal and religious concepts. He remained in ignorance for a period of time, though he lived for more than three years with Jesus one day he forgot his concepts, when he entered the house of Cornelius, he understood his religious misconceptions (At.10: 34 - 36). To see it is necessary to follow the One who says "Come and see."
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