Why does God do it? He does it for no reason at all except that he is a God of love. This is the inscrutable grace of God. He is gracious to the ungracious, faithful to the unfaithful, loving to the unloving. His call comes first. God issues the invitation to come back home before anything else happens, before we have made the slightest motion back toward him. This is the priority of the divine call in salvation. Through the words of the Bible, God is calling you back home. He is saying, “Come back
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