It is like saying, No, Lord, I don’t want You, I want myself; but I want myself clean and filled with the Holy Ghost; I want to be put in Your show room and be able to say – ‘This is what God has done for me.’ If we only give up something to God because we want more back, there is nothing of the Holy Spirit in our abandonment; it is miserable commercial self-interest.
Source: https://devotion.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Abandonment
