Why Me?

Why me?  This is a simple but also a very deep question depending on what has happened to you or what someone has done for you.  In the case of our salvation, this becomes a very deep theological question. 

"No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day." John 6:44 

I guess that answers the question doesn't it?  Why me?  Because the Father drew me to Christ.  It was nothing that I did.  It was not "a choice" that I made, contrary to a lot of popular teaching in the church today.  If it was my choice, then I would have an answer to "Why me?"  I could say that I walked the aisle, I prayed a prayer, I MADE A DECISION!  But do you see where the focus lies in all of those answers?  The focus is on what I did instead of what God has already done in Christ.  The Bible doesn't talk this way about salvation, and we should not either.
If I truly try to answer the question, "Why did God save me?"  I come up blank.   I cannot think of one good things that I did that would cause God to look at me and then decide to wipe away all of my sin.  The old sinful, selfish, and prideful man inside of me wants to give lots of reasons; but the born again man in me knows better. 

A.W. Pink tells us why in his book The Attributes of God.
"If then the reader is a real Christian, he is so because God chose him in Christ before the foundation of the world (Eph 1:4), and chose not because He foresaw you would believe, but chose simply because it pleased Him to choose; chose you notwithstanding your natural unbelief.  This being so, all the glory and praise belongs alone to Him.  You have no ground for taking any credit to yourself.  You have 'believed through grace' (Acts 18:27), and that, because your very election was 'of grace' (Rom. 11:5)."

God has taken off the blinders that I willingly put over my eyes so that I could see the Son and believe (John 6:40). 

Only God can remove the ear plugs that I jammed into my ears so that I could hear and learn from Him (John 6:45).

Praise God for doing what I could never do for myself.  Praise God for changing this broken sinner, who loved his sin, into a redeemed believer, who still sins, but loves God and wants to kill the sin in his life.