Can God Save Us Before We Fully Seek Him?

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GM777

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I just wonder from my own personal experience. I feel as if people were warning me what was going on in my life before I fully believed it and that God was somehow working in my life, perhaps at first through them, to help me wake up before I even started fully seeking Him. Is it possible that God comes to our rescue before we come to Him, as if He knows those who will serve before they know? I hope I made sense. I know Jesus died to save all mankind; however, it is our choice to accept the gift of salvation. Before we fully accept the gift, is it possible that God comes to our aid? I feel like that happened with me, and I can't figure out why He did or why I would even be worthy of it. Was it because I was a believer in the past who felt abandoned and that I have suffered for a long time, and He knew that suffering?
 
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kenisyes

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#2
It's been God since before the day you were born. He knit you in your mother's womb, so you take a breath, so you could live, so you could eat, so you could grow, so you could learn language, so you could learn to read, so you could hear about Him, so you could say "tell me about Jesus", so you could hear the answer, so you could come to a day that you could understand your sinfulness, so you could choose to repent and follow Jesus, so you could be reborn into the Kingdom of God, so you could be filled with His Spirit, so you could be transformed, so you could be empowered, so you could reach out, so you could be part of a Kingdom of priests, so you could help a world crying out for His glory, so you could go from glory to glory with Him, so you could fill out your potential in His will for a lifetime, so you could fall asleep in Him, so you could rise and rule with Him and live with Him forever. And when it's all over, you will have done nothing to bring yourself to any of it, except to say yes.

We're all at a different part of that journey, but it's all Him. I don't know where you are, but I pray that you will take the next step with the same desire and trust for Him that has brought you this far.

He did it because that's the kind of God He is. He delights in blessing us. The reason He made you: after He made me, He had love left over, and wanted some more humans to share it with.
 
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dmdave17

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Dear GM777,

I believe that your assessment of your situation is absolutely correct. God makes each one of us in order to have an intimate relationship with Him. He will never stop trying to get our attention and show us the benefits of walking in harmony with Him. The "conscience" is one of things that God has planted inside us to point the direction. That empty feeling, that unfulfilled longing for something (love, companionship?) that so many humans feel, I believe, is God calling to his children to come home to Him.

We know that God works in a myriad of ways to accomplish His purposes. I have no doubt that He will use friends and acquaintenances to get us to acknowledge Him and begin to seek a closer relationship. As kenisyes pointed out, you are very blessed to have made this discovery at a relatively young age. In today's world, there are many who have hardened their hearts to the point where God's calling will probably never get through. While I do not believe that He ever stops trying, there are many who are doomed to spend eternity separated from our awesome and merciful God because they fail to recognize that "God is somehow working in their lives".

God bless you and keep seeking Him.