I Will Never Need Jesus

I will never really need Jesus until the moment I realize that I truly do deserve to die for and in my sins. Until I see my heart as it really is, and as it is before GOD, I will never truly need Jesus. Until I see that He truly did die in my place, because He really did receive the just punishment for all my hideous and obvious sins, those known and unknown by other people, and the things in my heart that I pretend are not sin, but are, I will never really need Jesus. The hiker lost in the mountains never really needs to be found while he still has water, shelter and food. It is only when he is out of all three that he comes face to face with the fact that he is really lost, genuinely in  trouble, having no idea where he is, where to go or what to do. Few of us get really serious about the state of our souls until we have run out of the our own supplies.