The person who wrote those lines was convinced of his own inability to achieve salvation. That author knew that one’s condition, without God’s intervention, is so critical that no one would have chosen God unless God had first chosen him or her. We would all be running from God, trying to cover up our guilt and shame, but God determined to make us his own possession. If we become God’s children, it will be only because he “in love … predestined us to be adopted as his sons” (Eph. 1:4–5). God is not