Brokenness

AT Pierson said, “Self-denial is not cutting off an indulgence here and there, but laying the axe at the root of the tree of self, of which all indulgences are only greater or smaller branches. Self-righteousness and self-trust, self-seeking and self-pleasing, self-will, self-defense, self-glory – these are a few of the myriad branches of that deeply rooted tree… We speak of our ‘crosses' – but the word of God never uses that word in the plural, for there is but one cross – the cross on which the self-life is crucified, the cross of voluntary self-renunciation” (George Muller of Bristol).