My mom, Lyndell Hetrick Holtz, who has an amazing testimony of her own (you can read all about it in her book: Confessions of an Adulterous Christian Woman), reminded me of this question yesterday. I posted it on my Facebook page and a friend printed it off and put it on his office wall. Not a bad idea! Here it is:
So how would you answer this question?
Desire Mercy 
Bang on.
If I believe one or both, the results are the same.
exactly.
God was asking me something similar, the first part was similar but the second part was “or are you still trying to fix it on you own”. Here again, to quote ric822, “the results are the same.”
Romans and reading The Normal Christian Life by Watchman Nee helped me answer this question.
Oops, meant to say “or are you still trying to fix it on your own”