When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple. They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. (Jonah 2:7-8)

The difficulty all along has been to get to the end of you, for when a man gets to the end of himself, he has reached the beginning of God’s working.

When you are cleaned right out and have not anything at all left, then all the mercy of the covenant of of grace is yours. I may have doubts about whether God’s grace will be exercised in certain cases.

But I cannot raise any question about the freeness of divine grace toto a soul who is empty, to a soul who is ready to perish, to a soul who is inquiring after God, and to a soul who is hungering and thirsting after righteousness.

When once your soul is so conscious of your sin that every hope of salvation by your won works is entirely abandoned and you feel that you are utterly condemned, then Jesus Christ is yours, for he came to call, not the righteous, but sinners.

So accept him as yours, take him, receive him now. He is made of God fullness to our emptiness, righteousness to our unrighteousness, life to our death, salvation to our condemnation, all in all to our poverty, our wretchednesss, our sin.[1]

Charles Spurgeon

See also:

PREACH JESUS CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED

REFUTE FALSE DOCTRINE OR ADAPT IT?

ALL FALSE TEACHERS SEEK THE APPROVAL OF MAN