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A bit late for me, but until tomorrow...

“If God places a desire for Him in your heart, then it is not your will, but God’s will that is being done.”

God calls most, but most reject his call. God draws, but man is not compelled to accept.

Why do I say that?

Jesus also told them other parables. He said, 2 “The Kingdom of Heaven can be illustrated by the story of a king who prepared a great wedding feast for his son. 3 When the banquet was ready, he sent his servants to notify those who were invited. But they all refused to come!

4 “So he sent other servants to tell them, ‘The feast has been prepared. The bulls and fattened cattle have been killed, and everything is ready. Come to the banquet!’ 5 But the guests he had invited ignored them and went their own way, one to his farm, another to his business. 6 Others seized his messengers and insulted them and killed them.

7 “The king was furious, and he sent out his army to destroy the murderers and burn their town. 8 And he said to his servants, ‘The wedding feast is ready, and the guests I invited aren’t worthy of the honor. 9 Now go out to the street corners and invite everyone you see.’ 10 So the servants brought in everyone they could find, good and bad alike, and the banquet hall was filled with guests.

11 “But when the king came in to meet the guests, he noticed a man who wasn’t wearing the proper clothes for a wedding. 12 ‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how is it that you are here without wedding clothes?’ But the man had no reply. 13 Then the king said to his aides, ‘Bind his hands and feet and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

14 “For many are called, but few are chosen.”

While God calls all - ““God overlooked people’s ignorance about these things in earlier times, but now he commands everyone everywhere to repent of their sins and turn to him.” Acts 17 - not all are willing to be clothed in his righteousness. So yes, God calls. We can refuse.

“I think objectively the main reason why someone would reject God is because God did not put a desire in his heart to accept him.”

Jesus gave several reasons why people rejected his calling. They include wealth - a love of the things of the world - and caring more for the opinion of man than of God. There may be others, but Jesus specifically gave those two reasons.

It isn’t that God didn’t call, but men refused to come. “...you refuse to come to me that you may have life...How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?”

That isn’t my opinion, but the words of Jesus.