From John Stott’s daily thought. This, to me is the primary reason so many do not desire to follow Christ, in a nutshell:

We must cast aside apathy, pride, prejudice and sin, and

seek God in scorn of the consequences. Of all these

hindrances to effective search the last two are the hardest

to overcome, intellectual prejudice and moral self-will.

Both are expressions of fear, and fear is the greatest

enemy of the truth. Fear paralyses our search. We know

that to find God and to accept Jesus Christ would be a very

inconvenient experience. It would involve the rethinking

of our whole outlook on life and the readjustment of our

whole manner of life. And it is a combination of

intellectual and moral cowardice which makes us hesitate.

We do not find because we do not seek. We do not seek

because we do not want to find, and we know that the way to

be certain of not finding is not to seek.