If I refuse my place as the creature before the Creator and do not commit myself to him for his use, this is sin.  And anything else is also misery.  How can you enjoy God on any other level than what you are, and in the present situation?  Anything else will bring misery, a torturing of the poor, divided personality we are since the fall.  To live moment by moment through faith on the basis of the blood of Christ, in the power of the Holy Spirit is the only really integrated way to live.  This is the only way to be at rest with myself, for only in this way am I not trying to carry what I cannot.

From:  Schaeffer, Francis A.  (1971).  True Spirituality.  Wheaton:  Tyndale House Publishers

Heard this man lecture many times.  Sometimes we are slow to learn life-changing truth.