"If you tarry till you're better,
You will never come at all;
Not the righteous, not the righteous!
Sinners, Jesus came to call.”
How slow the human heart is to learn this lesson! By nature, we all want to patch and repair ourselves a little, outwardly, before we present ourselves to God for pardon. We would like to be able to say: "I am not so bad after all. And certainly when I came to Christ I was not as vile as some others are.”
Just as Mephibosheth, "lame on both feet," was utterly unable to alter his deformity, so every redeemed soul has had to learn and confess his own helplessness as regards assisting in his soul's salvation. Christ, the spotless One, did all the work. He finished it on Calvary's cross. Our only claim is our need, our vileness. The work wrought for us and in us is all of grace, that God may have all the glory.