For Those With Ears to Hear

You’ve heard it before,
“God loves you, has a plan for you, and is just waiting for you to choose Him.”

Sounds nice.
Comforting, even.
But it’s missing something.

Actually it’s missing everything.

Because the real Gospel?
The one in your Bible?

It doesn’t start with God waiting.
It starts with you dead.

You weren’t sick. You weren’t struggling.
You weren’t lost looking for home.

You were dead in sin.
Blind.
Rebellious.
Hostile toward God.
Dead people don’t cry out for help.
They rot.

Romans 3 says,
no one seeks God.

Not some. Not a few.
No one.

If you’re seeking Him now, it’s because He came for you first.

God didn’t choose you because you were smarter, softer, or more spiritual.
He chose you before the foundation of the world. Before you did anything good or bad.

Why?

So that His mercy would be fully mercy Not something you earned, not something He owed.

You didn’t pick Him.
He picked you.
On purpose.
In love.
For His glory.

Jesus didn’t die for the idea of saving people.
He died to actually save people.

Not to make salvation possible.
But to make it finished.

He didn’t bleed out hoping you’d say yes.
He died for His people.
By name.
With full intention.

And not one drop of His blood was wasted.

You didn’t wake up one day and decide to turn to God.
You were dead, remember?

The only reason you ever believed, repented, and surrendered, is because God made you alive.

He didn’t beg.
He called.
And when He did, your heart changed.
Your eyes opened.
You came running.

Not because your will was strong.
But because He overpowered your deadness with life.

And now that He’s saved you, He will keep you.

You’re not holding onto Him.
He’s holding onto you.

You might fall.
You might fail.
You might doubt.
But if you belong to Christ, you’re not going anywhere.

Because what God starts, He finishes.
Every time.

This is the Gospel most people never hear.

Not because it’s not in Scripture.
But because it kills pride, crushes self-righteousness, and gives all the glory to God.

It tells you the truth.

You weren’t good.
You didn’t choose right.
You didn’t meet Him halfway.
You were dead.
And He raised you.

That’s the Gospel.
That’s grace.
That’s our God.

Jesus Christ is King.