Amen! And when we tie your quoted material with the quoted material Jim has posted, what do we see? Could it be that simple? Yes, it is that simple. Of course the prayer has be heartfelt. How do we come to the point of such a whole heart prayer is the most important question we can ask and answer. Maybe the answer is found in both of the events spoken of? John the Baptist's statement will give us light. And, Abraham's great trial reveals the answer. And, when Jesus told Nicodemus he needed to be converted, He would not keep this from him. There must be a clear, very clear statement in the Bible, and the Spirit of Prophecy. And since there is, why do we not have many more here with us?
None among the hearers, and not even the speaker himself, discerned the import of these words, "the Lamb of God." Upon Mount Moriah, Abraham had heard the question of his son, "My father, . . . where is the lamb for a burnt offering?" The father answered, "My son, God will provide Himself a lamb for a burnt offering." Genesis 22:7, 8. And in the ram divinely provided in the place of Isaac, Abraham saw a symbol of Him who was to die for the sins of men. The Holy Spirit through Isaiah, taking up the illustration, prophesied of the Saviour, "He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter," "and the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all" (Isaiah 53:7, 6); but the people of Israel had not understood the lesson.
Why did not John understand that Jesus was the Lamb that had to die? Why did the mother of Jesus and His disciples not understand Jesus was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world? Do we understand how a man is saved? What must we do to be saved? Some teach "nothing", God does it all. Others say we do not have to obey God, for that would be Phariseeism.
Why do so many today not understand what John meant when he said "behold, the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world"? Because the church remains in a Laodicean condition and many have no spiritual discernment. Many pastors are as the blind leading the blind. They have been burying people alive, many never died to self and sin. They do not believe Christ suffered and died to take away our sins, to cleanse our hearts from sin.
If we believe the Romans seven experience is the converted Christian's experience, that we do what we ought not do and we don't do what we ought to do, then we do indeed believe we are rich and increased with goods and in need of nothing, not knowing as a people we are wretched, miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.
On the other hand, if we discover we can do no good thing, and realize we are under condemnation when sinning a known sin, then if we pray earnestly for power to overcome temptation, then the light which fell upon Christ will fall upon us and we will be given power to overcome. "The light which fell from the open portals upon the head of our Saviour will fall upon us as we pray for help to resist temptation."