A man once met a preacher in London and said, “I heard you preach one time, and you said something which I have never forgotten. It has been the means of my conversion.”
“What was that?” asked the preacher.
“It was that the lock was on our side of the door. I had always thought that God was a hard God, and that we must do something to pacify Him. It was a new thought to me that Christ was waiting for me to open to Him.”
If Christ is not within our hearts, the fault is ours.