The sense we have of our continual and absolute need of Christ, has a tendency to engage our affections to Him. At our first conversion, when we were turned from darkness to light, we saw ourselves lost, and that none but Christ could save us; we felt the wounds of a guilty conscience, and we knew that He alone could heal them; we trembled before the offended Majesty of God, and we were persuaded that He alone could deliver us from the wrath to come; we saw that there was no remission of sin, no reconciliation with God, no salvation but through Jesus.
Hence He became, at that period all in all to us.