I would like to add my 2 cents worth also by relating a story I heard back in my youth days, by a radio personality by the name of Bro. Dave Gardner.
It went something like this:
A young man set out to gain knowledge from a leading guru in a distant land. After trekking up the mountains he came into the temple where the guru resided. The guru asked him what it
was that he had need of. The young man replied, " I am here seeking knowledge", to which the guru directed him to a water tank at the back of the room. He had the young man bend
down with his face near the water. He then took the young man's head and pushed it down into the water and held it there until the young man almost drowned. The guru let him up
and asked the young man, " What did you want more than anything else in the world, when your head was under the water"? The young man, gasping, said "a breath of air".
The guru then told him, "When you want knowledge as much as you wanted the breath of air, you will find it."
Salvation is like that. You have to want it more than anything else in the 'world'. When you do, you will find it, or rather it will find you.
Mark 12:30-31, "And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the
second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these".
Jesus is calling to "whosoever will".
Psalms 13:6
"I will sing unto the Lord,
because he hath dealt bountifully with me".