The Posture of Salvation

What is the posture of salvation? In Mark 10 Jesus is very clear: we are to come to Him like little children. What kind of posture is that? It is the posture of humility, weakness, dependence, unworthiness. Such was the viewpoint of children in the days of Christ. They were not highly valued nor seen to have much to offer.
As humans we don't particularly like that posture. We think more highly of ourselves. Like the rich young ruler (Mark 10:17f) we want to offer God our goodness - our deeds of righteousness or lawkeeping. (That is exactly what the Jews were trying to do of whom Paul speaks tenderly in Romans 10.) We want to cling to our supposed "riches". But we cannot come to Christ with full hands. Jesus can only fill empty vessels.
So if we cannot offer God something for our eternal life, then how can we be saved. Jesus' answer is that "with man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God (vs. 27)." In fact, if we are to be saved - to inherit eternal life - we must come like the blind beggar, Bartimaeus. All he did was cry out for mercy. He said, Son of David, have mercy on me. He did what Romans 10:13 suggests - For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. Offering nothing, with empty hands, he cried out for God's mercy and found Christ very responsive to such a call.
Spurgeon aptly says that we are much more sinful than we think we are, much more unworthy than we know ourselves to be, much more weak than we comprehend. But the good news is that "Jesus Christ is able and willing to save those who come to God through Him. Our emptiness does not affect his fullness. Our weakness does not alter His power. Our inability does not diminish his omnipotence. Our undeserving does not restrain His love." He is able to save!
That's really good news! So how do we respond? Again Spurgeon directs us well when he says, "Gospel pharmacy is for the sick; gospel bread is for the hungry; gospel fountains are open to the unclean; gospel water is given to the thirsty. Let your huge and painful wants impel you to fly to Jesus. Let the vast cravings of your insatiable spirit compel you to go to Him. Your unworthiness should act as a wing to bear you to Christ, the sinner's Savior."
Have you found the posture of salvation? Though humbling for a moment, in the end it elevates us to the heavens where Christ is seated at the right hand of the Father on high. May God grant us the sight of Bartimaeus so that we, like him, cry out for the mercies of our Savior!