But when he came to his senses, he said, “How many of my father’s hired men have more than enough bread, but I am dying here with hunger!”
—Luke 15:17
Here, I am convinced, is where true repentance always begins: with an accurate assessment of one's own condition. Everyone-from the profligate sinner who is a complete wastrel (such as this young man) to the most fastidious, patronizing Pharisee-needs to face the reality that the sinfulness we have inherited from Adam has made us spiritual paupers. No sinner has the means to atone for his or her own sin or the ability to overcome the power of sin that holds us. Our sin has put us in a desperate situation.
—John MacArthur, A Tale of Two Sons (Thomas Nelson, 2008), 89–90.
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