"To wash and dress a corpse is a far different thing from making it alive: man can do the one, God alone can do the other." -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening
We can make ourselves look better, but we cannot make ourselves alive. We are dead in our sins and our best works are like cosmetics on a corpse. It may look more life like, but it isn't. It may appear a little less grotesque, but at best, it's no less gruesome... and daily it's getting worse -- not better; more rotten, not fresher; more stinky, not sweeter; more decomposed, not more composure.
Only God can give breath to bones and animation to muscles. Only He can make the aroma of death rise above the surface in new life and fruitfulness.
John 3:3
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
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