Our Need

Our need for illumination...

Many men live in the dark to themselves all their days; whatever else they
know, they know not themselves. They know their outward estates, how
rich they are, and the condition of their bodies as to health and sickness
they are careful to examine; but as to their inward man, and their
principles as to God and eternity, they know little or nothing of
themselves. Indeed, few labor to grow wise in this matter, few study
themselves as they ought, are acquainted with the evil of their own hearts
as they ought; on which yet the whole course of their obedience, and
consequently of their eternal condition, doth depend. --John Owen