[Quix]

In other words, I used “force”

in the common . . . HEAVY COERCION/DEMANDING, BLACK BOOTED way.

That’s NOT Holy Spirit’s Nature, Character or SOP. And if anyone thinks so . . . I’d be concerned that they’d hooked up with a gross imposter from hell.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

I don't quite know what "black-booted way" means, but God certainly tossed Paul on his ear.

Only those whom God draws to Himself can and will come to Him. None of the rest will even want to come.

"Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee" -- Psalm 65:4

I know it all feels very transactional and contemporaneous to our own sensations, but God wrote your name in the Book of Life from before the foundation of the world, Q.

And at a time of God's choosing, the Holy Spirit made that fact plain to your new eyes, right about the same time he gave you new ears to hear and a new heart to understand and quickened your mind to His word.

It's exhilarating knowing everything in life is by the will of God. He's God, after all. It's all His show.

"So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do." -- Luke 17:10