Mack you understood it because God gave you a new heart.
The resaon everyone does not get it is they have hearts of stone
Ezekiel 36:26-27 - "26 A new heart also will give you, and a new spirit will put within you: and I take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I give you an heart of flesh. 27 And I put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them."
Jesus said you could not even see the Kingdom of God..let alone desire it unless you were born again..He opened your heart
Acts 16:14 - "And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul."
Mack you did not choose him..he chose you
Romans 10:20 - "But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me."
Sure He did, just like he does EVERYONE, I just accepted Him in my heart, but alot will not, it their choice.
BigMack