Mark 10:18
No One is Good, but God Alone
18 Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good--except God alone.
Years ago, I thought I was a good person, that maybe needed a little tweaking by Jesus...A tweak here, a tweak there and a little more belief here and there and everything would be alright...
C. S. Lewis put it this way, “Imagine yourself as a living house...God comes in to rebuild that house...At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing...He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised...But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense...What on earth is He up to?...The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards...You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace...He intends to come and live in it Himself.”...
The here and there tweak was not near enough...Lewis was right...