"This process of surreneder- this movement full speed astern- is what Christians call repentance. Now repentance is no fun at all. It is somethiing much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unleaarning all the self-conceit and self-will hat we have been training ourselves into for thousands of years. It means killing paart of yourself, undergoing aa kind of death. In fact, it needs a good mann tot repent. And here comes the catch. Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly. The worse you are the more you need it and the less you can do it. The only person who could do it perfectly would be a perfect person- and he woulld not need it.
Remember, this repentance, this willing submissioon to humiliiatiion and a kind of death, iss not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which he could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back to Him is like."
"But the same badness which makes us need it, makes sus unable to do it. Can we do it if God helps us? Yes, but what do we mean when we talk of God helping us? We mean God puting into us a bit of Himself, so to speak. He lends us a little of his reasoning powers and that it how we think: He puts a little of His love into us and that is how we love one another."
Mere Christianity, CS Lewis
He keeps going to say that now, because man has fallen, we need repentence, a surrender and death of ourselves, to be right with God. But only someone perfect could repent perfectly and only somone bad needs to. Thus we need God to help us do something that it is nowhere in his nature to do; to surrender and die. So He became like us, so that in His perfect nature as God and in his nature of man, He could do for us what we could NEVER do for ourselves.
That is the AMAZING gift of our Lord, Jesus Christ. | 
