This is perhaps one of the hardest lessons for a scientific age to learn. We have cut our intellectual teeth on the basic assumption of the inevitability of progress. We are so steeped in the sense of our own importance that we are tempted to believe that there is nothing that the mind of man cannot accomplish. We have been prone to leave God out of our reckonings. So have small minds fallen into the trap of believing that God is the creation of the mind of man.
Salvation is a gift to be accepted.
We receive it as beggars crying for a crumb from the master's table, or we do not receive it at all. In this sense a man cannot be saved unless he is on his knees. He is in no position to be saved unless he is really aware that he is lost. Wherefore God has highly exalted Him and given Him a name that is above every name. I lay in dust life's glory dead And from the Cross their blossoms red, Life that shall endless be.