DIDN'T HE DRAW YOU?

JOHN 6:44

NO MAN CAN COME TO ME, EXCEPT THE FATHER WHICH HATH SENT ME DRAW HIM: AND I WILL RAISE HIM UP AT THE LAST DAY.


I was speaking with someone who has been sowing into a brother for over eight years now and they still want to dabble in the world and yet be a part of the ministry as well. They said, "Pastor it's just not their time yet, God hasn't drawn them." This person knows scripture back and front and wants to preach to other people but they haven't been drawn? That's the wrong answer. I believe they have been drawn. I believe we haven't seen an increase because their heart has to desire these things, but we are not waiting for a drawing...and further more they should not have any role in ministry until they make up their mind who's side they are going to be on.
The above scripture tells us that no man comes to Christ except he is drawn by the Father. Many people use this scripture to rationalize the lack of desire to seek after the Spirit of God and His righteousness. They reason within themselves saying that they are waiting to be drawn or waiting for that relative, that son, or that daughter to be drawn. But are you overlooking the draw? Many people were still saying they were looking for Christ the Messiah well after He had already come and gone. Are you missing it simply because He is not manifesting Himself the way that you desire? Didn't He draw you everyday with new mercies? Didn't He draw you with the rising of the sun and the going down of the same? Did He not draw you while beholding all of His goodness in the land of the living? Is it not us in our flesh that simply resists the drawing? We resist and quench the Spirit as it draws and tugs upon our heart. Eventually the Lord (because of His favor, compassion, and mercy) will pour or manifest Himself so heavily upon us that we find Him irresistible. It is then that some have that spiritual breakthrough encounter and its that moment we transition from operating in His permissive will to operating in His perfect will. What a beautiful thing it is when the Lord can have full reign completely in us! And the works that He began, He is able to perform with our obedience, even until the day of Christ Jesus. I'm drawn everyday  by His Majesty, His brilliance, His Splendor! By His Spirit I'm drawn and by His Spirit I stand; unshakeable, unmovable, ever abounding in the faith! I'm forever drawn, and therefore I will forever seek.
-A God Chaser