Yes, Jesus waits for them. But they need to Ask, Seek and Knock and go to the Lord. They have to do their part and repent of their sins.
The Cross is just as absurd to religious people who insist on doing “their part” to somehow activate what God has clearly done through His Son...from the foundation of the world. The work of God? “To believe in the one He has sent.”
Cain was about the work, Abel was about the free gift! We know which one pleased the LORD.