At this, because he said, “I am the Bread that came down from heaven,” the Jews started arguing over him: “Isn’t this the son of Joseph? Don’t we know his father? Don’t we know his mother? How can he now say, ‘I came down out of heaven’ and expect anyone to believe him?”

43-46 Jesus said, “Don’t bicker among yourselves over me. You’re not in charge here. The Father who sent me is in charge. He draws people to me—that’s the only way you’ll ever come. Only then do I do my work, putting people , setting them on their feet, ready for the End. This is what the prophets meant when they wrote, ‘And then they will all be personally taught by God.’ Anyone who has spent any time at all listening to the Father, really listening and therefore learning, comes to me to be taught personally—to see it with his own eyes, hear it with his own ears, from me, since I have it firsthand from the Father. No one has seen the Father except the One who has his Being alongside the Father—and you can see me. (The Message)

When Jilly and I pray for those within our circles to come to know Christ, we often ask that God will bring Christians around them who will impress them, and impact them – that they will be an influence on their lives. This is certainly one significant way that the Lord may work, but it isn’t His only way. Who can say how He will work? He has so many ways to reach the human heart. One thing is for sure though, He is able to draw to Himself all those whom He is calling. We can be confident of this. F.B. Meyer writes: ‘Notice that every soul which is taught of God will recognise Christ, v.45!’