Man naturally shrinks from getting into dose quarters with God. Often a sinner, aroused to a sense of his lost condition by the activity of the Holy Spirit, begins to "seek" after God. But waiting to find within his own poor heart a ground for assurance that he may come to God, he remains at a distance from Him.
We are not entitled to come to God because we may have a sense within our hearts that we are willing to come, nor because we feel graciously inclined, nor because we may think that we have attained to sufficient goodness within ourselves. Our only ground, our only title, for coming to God is His invitation in His Word. And He invites us to Himself just as we are.
"Enter ye in at the strait
gate: for wide is the gate,
and broad is the way,
that leadeth to
destruction, and
many there be
that go in
thereat:
"Strait is the gate, and narrow
is the way, which leadeth
unto life, and few there
be that find it.”