Who is better off?

Romans 3:9-11: What then? are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, as it is written: None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. We are all the same, no matter what we do, we are all under sin in desperate need of a savior to lift the burden of sin in our lives.

Psalm 53:3 - They have all fallen away; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.

Ecclesiastes 7:20 - Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

Everyone sins, Christ died for everyone and took the punishment whether we choose to accept it or not. Everyone falls short of God's glory. Can we truly seek God without Him seeking us? Can we choose to follow Him if We can't choose to seek Him? Is sin so evident in our lives that it is dividing us completely from Him. The answer is yes. Sin divides us from a relationship from God. God cannot be in the presence of sin. If sin is present in our lives, God cannot be a part of it. We cannot seek God without realizing that we have sin in our lives that needs to be washed away by the free gift that God gives on the cross. This is not something that we can just realize. God has to open our eyes in order to hear Him. We don't ever seek Him. He seeks us in ways that we don't understand. Sin does divide us. He seeks us, and we have to choose whether or not we will follow Him.

Lord,
Thank you so much for the free gift that you have offered me on the cross and the reminder that you give me in your word. Thank you for seeking me, for helping me realize that I have a sin issue and am in need of a savior. Thank you so much for giving me the choice to follow you, and to be a part of the family of God. Lord, I pray that you would make this evident in the lives of people that I come into contact with. Help them to realize the almighty God that I live and love to serve. I pray that they would find a love for You as I have that would fill their lives with abundance and mercy and love.