Some people have always felt the pull of grace and divinity. Not fully understanding this spiritual attraction, men and women may have interpreted the sense of inspiration, promise, power, or direction they were receiving from God as a private dispensation: they were the elect, the chosen.
But doesn't this interpretation lack logic? Spiritual good cannot be partial and at the same time be genuine and permanent.
In its total design the Bible refutes the misconception that goodness is dispensed on a limited basis—to some and not to others. As one moves from Genesis to Revelation, one's vision is expanded. There is a great distance between the belief found in most of Genesis in a tribal God, cherishing only His chosen few, to the spiritual understanding of God in Revelation. Here God, without reservation, invites all who thirst to come. "And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." Rev. 22:17;
