That takes cooperation on our part - because God has given us free moral agency. So we have to choose. (Back to Deuteronomy 30 again.) And life becomes a matter of choices that, by faith, we will ourselves to submit to the rule - to the government - of God. So our response has to be loving obedience. We should be able to do this. In fact, the apostle John said:
He [God] stuck His neck out. It is almost as if there is no guarantee of 'a return.' But He was willing to sacrifice Himself in the hope that our response to the demonstration of His love, through His Son, would fill us with such a sense of obligation and admiration that we, in turn, would dedicate our lives in obedience to Him.
