There are a lot of good people here, yet, none of us are good.

Like Jeanie, I like to see the best in people, yet, I do not have a blind eye towards the selfishness and rebellion that we all hide somewhere. That's why knowing the value of what Christ did begins with knowing ourselves and understanding how we all have our share of "badness".

I have searched myself enough to know that I have a never-ending streak of selfishness. It takes a long time to find out just how deep that streak goes, but this process of knowing ourselves is part of our transformation. For the Bible says that a spiritual man purifies himself, and so we continue to exercise this process and uncover our own shortcomings so we can become better people and so we can understand how forgiving God is, for He knew all these bad things about us all along.

So seeing that I am continually discovering my own darkness while knowing that I have, by grace, become a temple of the Holy Spirit, I can safely say...

"If you find anything good in me, it's not me."