In these times of relative peace and civility (at least in America), we seriously underestimate the evil that is us. 
We really don’t think we are that bad. After all, we haven’t murdered anyone or swindled large sum of money. There are people far worse than us. And when it comes down to it, we don’t really think we deserve to go to hell. 
How do I know most people think like this? Because I don’t see them clinging onto God, afraid of the hell-fire and their future in it. Churches would be filled with people if they had this grave sense about their sins. 
However, it is the very evil in us that makes us think that we are not that evil. Sin makes us blind to sin. We judge ourselves by the standard we have created. Therefore, we will always clear the bar no matter how evil we have been. It’s as if a murderer in prison thinks he’s not a bad chap because there is a serial murderer in the next cell… 
No. We must judge ourselves according to the One who made us. And the same One who died the most horrific death for us. 
“He saved others,” they said, “but he can’t save himself!… Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him.” Matthew 27:42
If he HAD come down from the cross, then they and we would be forever condemned to eternal torment. They were bringing the very curse upon their heads by daring Jesus to come down from the cross.
The only way we could be fit for heaven is if the Son of God died for us. We are so wicked and depraved that the God of the universe had to become killable in order to save us from ourselves. 
Remember the cross. What’s how evil you and I are. And that’s also how loving God is.
PH