Charles H. Spurgeon
Ah! If you have a self-will in your hearts, pray to God to uproot it. Have you self-love? Beseech the Holy Spirit to turn it out; for if you will always will to do as God wills, you must be happy. I have heard of some good old woman in a cottage, who had nothing but a piece of bread and a little water, and lifting up her hands, she said, as a blessing, What!? all this, and Christ too? What is all this, compared with what we deserve? And I have read of someone dying, who was asked if he wished to live or die; and he said, I have no wish at all about it. But if you might wish, which would you choose? I would not choose at all. But if God bade you choose? I would beg God to choose for me, for I would not know which to take. Oh happy state! to be perfectly acquiescent, to lie passive in His hand, and know no will but His.
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