Earlier in this conversation with the crowd in Capernaum, Jesus said “The work of God is this: to believe in the One He has sent.” If believing is our work, then what is God’s? The crowd asked Jesus, “What miraculous sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will you do?” If their work was to believe, they assumed that Jesus’ work must be to convince them, to do something that made them believe, to instill faith, to prove Himself. The problem with this thinking is that it tries to turn our work into God’s work, it says that we will believe if He makes Himself believable, it removes faith from the equation, it turns belief into something done to us, when the reality is faith is always a choice, a decision, a commitment. In our text today Jesus reveals the work of God in our process of belief, the Father desires us and if we will belief, Jesus keeps us. God will not do the work of believing, He won’t lessen our responsibility, He requires a relationship founded in faith, but God is faithful to His work, He won’t stop seeking us and once we believe, Jesus won’t fail to keep us. There should be great comfort in knowing that we are wanted and kept.