How does one come to the place of repentance?

How does one come to the place in his/her life to want to repent? It seems to me that God has to open the eyes of one’s heart to see the wrong they have done.

I guess this is the reason why I have come to believe that God is saving this up until just before Jesus comes back to rule. In doing this, not one of us can judge or ask God, “Why are You saving so-n-so.” Instead, we will be asking, “Why are You saving me?”

We all find it easy to judge others but yet we can not see our own wretched condition. We think wrong thoughts and we do wrong things. Any good that comes out of us I don’t believe is from us but from God, yet we often take the credit for it.

The Bible teaches that we should be holy (righteous) because God is holy (righteous)(Leviticus 19:2) but it also teaches that there is no one righteous not even one.

Romans 3:10

New International Version (NIV)

¹⁰ As it is written:

“There is no one righteous, not even one;

Deuteronomy 9:5

It is not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart that you are going to possess their land, but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God is driving them out before you,

Deuteronomy 9:6

“Know, then, it is not because of your righteousness that the Lord your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stubborn people.

Daniel 9:7

“Righteousness belongs to You, O Lord, but to us open shame, as it is this day

1 Corinthians 1:30

But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,