In other words, prayer is not simply asking God to do things for us. It is impossible to pray for idols and hope to reach God. Prayer asks for nothing because we have everything. All these are idols because they are substitutes for the Love of God. True prayer must avoid the pitfall of asking to entreat.
True prayer is the top of the ladder.
None of us is there, and Jesus is not demanding that we be there. Basically, he is making the same point I made earlier with regard to Franz Liszts comment about Wagner. Jesus is not saying that we should be where he is. He is simply reminding us that that is our goal, and that we should not be settling for far less than what we can really have. That is the point of all this.