And in Isaiah, God says boldly, “I was found by those who weren’t trying to find me. I made myself known to those who weren’t asking for me.”
What should we say then? The Gentiles did not look for a way to be right with God, but they found it by having faith.
“Then the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the roads and country lanes and make people come in. I want my house to be full. But
“So those who are last will be first, and those who are first will be last.”
We love because he loved us first.
The people of Israel tried to become right with God by obeying the law, but that didn’t work.
They didn’t know how God makes people right with himself, so they tried to get right with God in their own way. They didn’t realize that