Desire for God things. God does the adoption into his family through the word. The purpose for man to become born-again is a child and his Father God having fellowship. God created man for that reason. Man can then enjoy God's love, mercy, and grace in an everlasting relationship with his heavenly Father.
Man can think and reason.
He has self awareness to fellowship with God in a spiritual life given him from above. Faith is not the same as hope. Hope is wishing for something. Faith is having it in a faith dimension. We are to believe, when we pray, that the answer has already occurred.