scroll of the book it is written of me. I delight to do Your will, O my God, And Your law is within my heart” (Ps. 40:7–8; compare Heb. 10:7, 9). What was true of the Lord Jesus applies also to us. We cannot engage in this soul-winning work unless we have been divinely called and chosen. Having called Peter, James, John, and the rest, Jesus later could say to them, “You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain” (John
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