Psalms 54:6
“I will freely sacrifice unto thee: I will praise thy name, O Lord; for it is good.”
Freely is key.
No one should have to force us or obligate us to love Jesus, just as we do not want anyone to be obligated to love us.
I imagine that this is why God says He does not look on the outside of a person but the heart. He is a God searching desperately for those that would love him simply from gratitude, not obligation.
God picked us from the beginning of time to be saved, even that is a gift. We have been saved because he chose to love us first.
