ER 31:3{Just examine now—was it not so? Was it with anything but lovingkindness that He drew you? Remember the way by which He led you; it may have been hedged with thorns, but was it not paved with love? Were not the very stones laid with fair colors? Can you help seeing the lovingkindness of the Lord all along? And what were they lavished for, but to draw you? That being acknowledged, what next? Lovingkindness is the fruit and expression and absolute proof of everlasting love. There is no escape from this magnificent conclusion-"Yea, I have loved thee [personally thee]... therefore... have I drawn thee [personally thee]." The coming was personal and individual. It may have been "in the press," but we had nothing to do with the rest of the throng. We know in ourselves that we, you and I, individually, have come. That personal coming was because of God the Father's personal drawing. I do not know how He drew you, you do not know how He drew me, but without it most certainly neither you nor I ever could have come, because we never would have come.
From no less fountain such a stream could flow,
No other root could yield so fair a flower;
Had He not loved. He had not drawn us so;
Had He not drawn, we had nor will nor power
To rise, to come the Savior had passed by
Where we in blindness sat without one care or cry.