The Sin of Pride

How is it that you do not lay hold of Christ, since this is the only time when there is a probability that Christ can be laid hold of? I will tell you why it is. You do not love Christ; you love sin. Or else you are too proud to come to Christ; you think yourselves good enough, and you think that Christ is not for such as you are, but only for great sinners and the lowest of the low. O sirs, is your pride such a fine thing, that you will be damned in order to maintain its dignity? Throw your pride down, come as a sinner must come, and lay hold of Jesus Christ. Or if it be your sin, which hinders, may God, the Hold Ghost, help you to pluck out the right eye and cast off a right arm sooner than having two eyes and two arms to be cast into Hell fire.

"But," saith one, "how may I lay hold on Christ?" May the blessed Spirit enable you to do it. Here it is: Trust Jesus Christ and you shall be saved. Conscious that you deserve His wrath, trembling because of His terrible Law, look to Jesus. There hangs a bleeding Savior. Methinks these eyes can see Him bleeding there; God eternal, He by whom the Heaven of Heavens was made, and the earth and the fullness thereof, takes upon Himself the form of man and hangs upon the tree of the curse.

Charles Spurgeon from Spurgeon Gold by Ray Comfort