The Delusion of Self-sufficiency
by Norman Grubb

We must have really tasted of the self-defeating activities of independent self in our redeemed lives, and have really become soured on them. We must have come to some final point of desperation and despair to have learned our lesson with an utter finality that this way of life, of us serving Christ rather than Him serving Himself in and by us, is a spill-over into our new lives of the great curse of the Fall, the delusion of self-sufficiency. It has to be a revelation-that the ultimate form of sin is a misuse of self, just as it then can become a personal revelation that the misuse of self is what was removed in the cross and is thus removed in us. And then can come the revelation of Christ, the real new Self in ourselves.

–From God Unlimited