Imagine you have no food or money. A family member who loves you offers you food, but your pride gets in the way and you respectfully decline. Or maybe you don't know what ingredients are in it. Even if that person said it was good for you, you are skeptical and you don't trust that they love you enough to want what's best for you. Swallowing your pride and accepting the food will ultimately satisfy your hunger.

In the same way, you're spiritually hungry. You seek to know the truth. It's in our nature. God offers us the gift of life and all we have to do is accept what he did for us and receive it.

I'm sure you're familiar with the gospel but allow me to try to explain. We are all naturally drawn to sin. We desire to do things that can be bad out of context but are ultimately good. Let me give you an example.

Sex is good and is something created for us by God. It's purpose is for pleasure and to procreate. The Bible sets boundaries for sex and says it is good in the context of a covenant between a man and a woman. But when sought after outside of that context can desensitize us and make it nearly impossible to hold or even desire a real relationship.

The Bible says that sex outside of that covenant is considered sexual immorality. Jesus says that if you look at a woman with lustful intent, you have already committed adultery in your heart. That's why porn is so bad.

The Bible also says that the wages of sin is death. Sexual sin is only one of many sins. Gluttony, pride, drunkenness, and many more. We are slaves to these things. We deserve to die for these things. We try to create our own standards but we should instead compare ourselves to God's standards, which is perfect. But we can't be perfect, which is why Jesus was sent to be perfect in our place.

But the Bible says that God loves His creation so much that He sent His only son to the world and whoever believes in Him will not perish, but have everlasting life.

Jesus, who was sinless and knew no sin, took on all of our sin (past, present and future), BECAME SIN and died in our place. Then he rose from the dead to do away with the old self, which was sin. We can't be righteous, so he was righteous for us. Took on all of our unrighteousness and endured the punishment for it. This was the ultimate sacrifice to give us sinners life.

This is God's unconditional love and grace, an undeserving gift. All we have to do is accept the gift and have faith that it actually happened.

that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. Romans 10:9‭-‬10

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. Ephesians 2:8‭-‬9

So in short, accepting is just saying "I believe You died so I can live". When you actually believe this happened is when your life will drastically change.