A doctor was telling me, "When I am called to Mrs. C., she always begins to prescribe for herself before I have even time to sit down. She talks to me all about herself, her ailments, her needed medicine, in fact, she thinks she knows her case thoroughly, and my wonder is that she ever sends for me.”
Now, how like this is to sinners. True, they think it might be well to have the Good Physician near them, but they do not listen to His voice. They speak about themselves, their sins, their works, as if they were wiser than God's Word.
The presumptuous patient was not healed by her talking, but by the doctor's medicine; and until the sinner is silent, and listens to the Word of God, he will not, cannot obtain peace with God.