Who's there?

I was reading about God’s effectual call today. This is the fact that God through the Holy Spirit has to do something in your heart before you could ever choose Christ on your own. In thinking about this topic those crazy motion lights came to mind, you know the ones that are supposed to turn on when someone walks by or pulls in your drive way. If you have ever had one of these remember when you saw the light come on and jumped up and looked out and nothing was there? I’ve looked more than once. What came to mind with God’s effectual call was that like the motion light that cannot turn on by its self, it takes something to set it off. The bulb and the electricity are there but if something does not move it will not turn on. So it is with humans, if God has decided before time (as the Bible says) to make you His own the bulb and the electricity are already there it just takes something to set it off, that something is the Holy Spirit.  For some what sets it off is dramatic, like someone pulling into your driveway and for others you never see it, the light goes on but you’re not sure why. But in both cases, something had to turn on the light and either way dramatic or subtle it’s God that turns you on. So if you’re not on, ask God to do so and if He has turned you on make sure to let your light shine.  

1 Peter 2:9
But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.