Why God Won’t Ever Let Go of You

When you became a Christian, you did so in response to the wooing of God in your life. People who are spiritually dead (see Ephesians 2:1-3) don’t just go looking for God. They don’t even know they need him. When a sinner starts his search for God, he does so in direct response to the stimuli of God in his life—the witness of the Holy Spirit, the revelation of God in nature, or the testimony of a believing friend. God uses these stimuli and others to awaken the spiritual awareness of an unbelieving person. Whenever a sinner crosses the line of faith and believes in Jesus, it’s always because God has first drawn him and convicted him.

In John 6:44 Jesus taught that “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him . . . .” Later he reiterated the same point when he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled him,” (John 6:65). His point is that salvation is impossible if it isn’t first offered to the sinner by God. If he doesn’t draw us, then we’ll never have the spiritual sense to look for him.

So why would God woo someone to him, accept his prayer of faith and name him as his follower, only to reject him later? He doesn’t do that. He doesn’t make mistakes or go back on his word. He woos needy sinners to him with full awareness of their spiritual condition. If you are a Christian, you are so because God led you to himself and you accepted his invitation to a relationship with him. God won’t accept you one day and reject you the next. He isn’t finicky and won’t change how he views you, even if you change how you view him.

From Ten Things Jesus Never Said.

 

 

 

 

 

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