Jehovah Draws His People to Him

David wrote in one of his psalms:  "Jehovah is high, and yet the humble one he sees; but the lofty one he knows only from a distance." (Psalm 138:6) In a similar vein, another psalm says:  "Who is like Jehovah our God, him who is making his dwelling on high?  He is condescending to look on heaven and earth, rising up the lowly one from the very dust." (Psalm 113:5-7)  Yes, the almighty Creator of the universe condescends to look down upon the earth, and his eyes see "the humble one,"  "the lowly one," people who are  "sighing and groaning over all the detestable things that are being done."  (Ezekiel 9:4) He draws such ones to himself by means of his Son. While on earth, Jesus stated:  "No man can come  to me unless the Father, who sent me, draw him . . . No one can come to me unless it is granted  him by the Father." -John 6:44, 65. 

All humans  should come to Jesus and put faith in the ransom sacrifice because they were born sinners, alienated from God.  (John :36) They need to be reconciled to God.  (2 Corinthians 5:20)  God did not wait for sinners to plead with him to provide some arrangement whereby they might find peace with him.  The apostle Paul wrote:  "God recommends  his own love to us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. . . .For it,m when we were enemies, we became reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, now that we have become reconciled, we shall be saved by his life." -Romans 5:8, 10.

The apostle John confirmed the sublime truth that God's reconciling humans to himself,writing: "By this the love of God was made manifest in our case, because God sent forth his only-begotten Son into the world that we might gain life through him.  The love is in this respect, not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent forth his Son as a propitiatory sacrifice for our sins." (1 John 4:9, 10) The initiative was God's , not man's. Do you not feel drawn to a God who showed so much love for"sinners,"   " enemies" at that?  - John 3:16.

Next time: Need for Seeking Jehovah

From the Watchtower magazine, 2002