What does true repentance look like?

Paul Carrington explains in this video that true repentance looks like a man who has been undone. He’s been broken down, he sees his own poverty. Repentant people realize that there is nothing in their hands that they can bring to somehow merit salvation or repentance. They must cling to the cross. 

We have nothing at all that we can bring to God. We owe Him everything. There is a recognition that we cannot save ourselves. We can see plenty of examples of true repentance throughout Scripture in the lives of David and Paul. A repentant person is humble -- Paul continues to refer to himself as the "least of all the saints."

Ephesians 3:8-9 (NKJV) - "To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ."

I think true repentance, it looks like a man who has been undone, he's been broken down, He's seen his own poverty. You know the the song that comes to mind is nothing in my hands I bring simply to the cross I claim the same song talks about naked come to thee for dress and it's this idea that we have nothing at all That we can bring to God We owe Him everything. It's a complete abasement and humility, a recognition that I cannot save myself. Please help me. And I think we see plenty of examples of that throughout the scriptures.

We see that in the book of Job. We see David, the king, making these same types of clinging statements. We see that all the way through the New Testament. Even the Apostle Paul makes reference to himself when he speaks to the fact that God saved him, that through him other people might have hope and see how far God's hand is really able and willing to reach down. And so he who was before time a blasphemer, you know, has now become an apostle, but he refers to himself still as the least of all the saints.