Sometimes we as Christians wonder how our friends, our family, and our loved ones don't see the same Truth that we see. We wonder how they can look around at the world and not realize that there is a God. Or how they acknowledge that there's some kind of God, yet refuse to accept the gift of salvation that God gives to us through his Son. The answer is that no one can just choose to accept Jesus unless that acceptance is planted in his heart by God the Father.
In the Gospel of John, Jesus is speaking of unbelief among his own disciples, the men he was teaching among every day during his earthly ministry, and he says:
Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father. (John 6:65)
We may be more familiar with Jesus' words about coming to the Father, when Jesus says elsewhere in the book of John:
I am the way , the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6)
But it is clear that while no one comes to God the Father except through a relationhip with Jesus Christ, also no one comes to acceptance of that same relationship except if the Father gives the person the ability to do so.
Think of your friends who you have witnessed to, of those you hope to see accept Christ and all that He has done for them. And then pray that they will accept...praying that God will give them the capacity TO accept that wonderful gift.
And reflect on the fact that you didn't choose God...at least not initially. First, He chose YOU.
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