How God works in our hearts

Posted on November 7, 2025 
Filed under Theology

“God works in many ways to bring His people to Himself.

Sometimes He works over a long period of time, such as with those people who grow up in a Christian home, where ‘Christ is the Head of the house, the unseen guest at every meal, the silent listener at every conversation’. They’ve been dedicated to God as covenant children and day by day, year by year, they grow into Christ.

Sometimes God brings people to Himself with a sudden flash of enlightenment, as with Saul of Tarsus on the road to Damascus.

Sometimes God brings people to Himself by bringing them to their senses in the far country, as with the Prodigal Son who went through a troubled and strugglesome journey.

Often He brings them to Himself after ongoing prayer for them by His people.

But all these ways have much in common, as Paul sets before us in Ephesians 3.14-20. …”

– Bob Thomas shares this encouragement at AP, the Presbyterian journal.