For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. 1 Corinthians 11:31
Look internally and see what your motives are.
Judge them against the Word of God.
Do you detect ego?
Or maybe lust.
Lust for pleasure, lust for material possessions.
Check your heart and see what your driving force is.
Most likely, there is some sin in there that you can commit to God.
Ask Jesus to cleanse and wash it clean.
Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord?
or who shall stand in his holy place?
He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart;
who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Psalm 24:3-4
If you want to be close to God, it’s part of the package.
As you are drawn into His Holiness,
you will see ugly things about yourself.
It will happen.
The light shines in the darkness.
He has an answer to each and every one of your sins.
How you can overcome with His strength.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins,
and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9
Who wants to examine our own sin?
Doesn’t sound fun.
It is something that has to be.
It’s part of carrying our cross.
Habits, thought patterns, repeated forms of expression.
We may call them personality traits.
We all have our failings.
Even though we may not be able
to overcome them completely while here on earth, we can get started.
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord:
though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;
though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Isaiah 1:18
As far as the east is from the west,
so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. Psalm 103:12
The Lord supports those whose heart is perfect toward Him.
He looks on our hearts.
There are a lot of: You should do this and don’t do that in the Bible.
Paul described his own battle to overcome certain things.
It’s that miserable flesh.
We’ll never be perfect until we meet Jesus face to face,
but we can try to be perfect in His sight.
To me that means doing your best.
You’d have to seek God to know the answer for sure.
He knows our motives and the thoughts and intents of the heart.
For the word of God is quick, and powerful,
and sharper than any twoedged sword,
piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit,
and of the joints and marrow,
and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Hebrews 4:12
We can submit our motives and thoughts to Him.
Keeping things on the table or, at the foot of the cross.
In other words, committing our failings to Him
and asking for His strength to be better, to do better.
This is a consideration… Adam tried to hide from God.
That’s impossible.
God sees all and knows all.
Nothing is hidden from His sight.
Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight:
but all things are naked and opened
unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. Hebrews 4:13
It is insulting to Him if we know we have a sin or a failing
and we try to hide it from Him.
If I covered my transgressions as Adam,
by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
Job 31:33
Struggling with unforgiveness?
Seek Him for strength and wisdom.
Struggling with gluttony?
Seek Him for help.
Struggling with anything, He is there for you.
He is there for all of us for the asking.
His compassions, they fail not.
Great is His faithfulness.
Great is His mercy.