Amen, FRiend! Amen! People woefully overestimate themselves and simultaneously woefully underestimate Christ’s goodness and power to save.
I’ve heard a wise old Tennessee Baptist preacher say many times that one of the rarest commodities on earth is a sinner. He said most people will admit they have committed some sins but most don’t think of themselves as all that bad, which is why they will end up in Hell. They end up there because they don’t understand their utter spiritual poverty and need. He says that when you find a genuine bonafide sinner, a man who understands his spiritual poverty and helplessness, you’ve found a man who is on his way to salvation. A man like that will throw Himself at the feet of Christ and look to Him to do what he knows he can’t within himself.
And yes, I’ve run into our Roodian. Ugh!