We don’t have to beg God to save anyone. He wants to save them more than we want to see them saved. I am reminded of a conversation Moses had with God. It would almost seem at face value, that Moses was trying to persuade God to be merciful by not destroying the Israelites. But it was the other way around. God was building within Moses depths of compassion and mercy Moses had never had before. God was giving Moses a chance to stand in the gap for the stiff-necked Israelites. I believe when we pray for others; God works a softness and tenderness that was not there before in our hearts. This is because we are talking to the One who is all mercy, all beauty, all powerful, all kind and all loving. When we pray to Him, He changes us and makes us like Himself. We become most like the thing that we worship. That is why the Bible admonishes us to praise the Lord so much. Every time we do it, we become a little more like Jesus. God was testing Moses to see if Moses was only interested in himself or whether he was jealous that God be glorified. By the grace of God, Moses passed the test by saying that God should spare the Israelites so that the Egyptians would not think that God would bring them into the desert just to destroy them. Moses was interested in God’s reputation not in his own fame. And God rewarded him for it.