The great point we encounter here is the reluctance of the human will to yield to God 1. It is the hardest thing in all the world to get a man away from his own merits. He will cling to his own goodness as a drowning man clings to a straw; and he will perish, trusting in his own righteousness, as certainly as if he perished trusting in his sins 2. God cannot bless you unless you have absolute surrender. There is a great deal of our own religion, of our own work, of our own strivings, of our own effort, and God cannot bless it. He is waiting to have us emptied of all 3.
22. Charles H. Spurgeon, excerpt from a sermon on self-righteousness, in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit (London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1890). (Note: Because this is a literal quote, it requires no modifier).
33. Adapted from Andrew Murray, Absolute Surrender and Other Addresses (New York: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1895), chap. 1.
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