"I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me." -- Galatians 2:20

These words mean the breaking of my independence with my own hand and surrendering to the supremacy of the Lord Jesus. No one can do this for me, I must do it myself. God may bring me up to the point three hundred and sixty-five times a year, but He cannot put me through it. It means breaking the husk of my individual independence of God, and the emancipating of my personality into oneness with Himself, not for my own ideas, but for absolute loyalty to Jesus... The one point to decide is - Will I give up, will I surrender to Jesus Christ, and make no conditions whatever as to how the break comes?

-- Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest