Jesus Takes Possession

When Jesus takes possession of our lives it
is not only that the past is forgotten and
forgiven; if that were all, we might well
proceed to make the same mess of life all
over again; but into life there enters this
new power which enables us to be what by
ourselves we could never be, and to do what
by ourselves we could never do.

- William Barclay (1907-1978),
The Gospel of John, v. 1