OH 1:13{Have not some of us had a scarcely detected notion, as if to some extent the salvation of others depended upon our efforts? Of course, we never put it in so many words; but has there not been something of a feeling that if we tried very hard to win a soul we should succeed and if we did not try quite enough it would get lost? And this has made our service anxious and burdensome. But what says Christ? "All that the Father giveth Me shall come to Me." They shall come, for the Father will draw them, and Jesus will attract them, and the Holy Spirit will lead them. And the purpose precedes the promise, even as the promise precedes the call, and the call precedes the coming. Thus God first planned and proposed the ark for the salvation of Noah from the flood. Then He said, "Thou shalt come into the ark." Long after that, when all things were ready, He said, "Come thou and all thy house into the ark." And then Noah went in; and then "the Lord shut him in." Now let us, in our work, practically trust our Lord as to His purposes, promises, and calls; quite satisfied that He "will work, and who shall let it?" that He will not accidentally miss anybody, or lose anything of all that the Father hath given Him, for this is the Father's will.
He shall confess His own from every clime and coast,
Before His Father's glorious throne, before the angel host,
By new creation Thine, by purpose and by grace,
By right of full redemption Mine, faultless before Thy face.