Why is it so difficult to look at ourselves without partiality; without excuses for our actions, behavior or words? Why is it so difficult to look into our soul and see what we truly are: ungrateful and rebellious. 
It seems we lie to ourselves continually. We listen to Satan's lies and bandy them around as truth. We make excuses for our actions, telling ourselves they were justified. Why is it we blame someone else for the fault in our lives when it is our own inability to accept the consequences of our behavior? How many loved ones and friends will we drive away, blaming everyone but ourselves for the wrong choices we have made in our lives? How long until we are at the age we have nothing to show for our lives: no friends … no family … no God. Why is it so difficult to accept sole responsibility for our own actions?
When will we learn what sacrifice, love and surrender truly means? When will we realize the same God that created the earth from the void of darkness is the same God that watches each sparrow as it falls? When will we realize it is He that has written down our days in His book, and it is the same God that loved us so much, He sacrificed His only Son, Jesus Christ, to save us from sin? How many times do we have to fall only to be strengthened, once again, by God? How many of us seem to make the same mistakes over and over and over again? How many years does it take to trust everything we have; everything we are; and everything we can become to God without the slightest hesitation?
 It is time to examine ourselves, and not with a simple cursory glance as in a mirror, but with a true soul searching, earth shattering examination; taking the results of a broken vessel to the only One who can repair us. We need to shatter the image in our minds of who and what we think we are, and allow God to mold us into whom He wants us to be. However, that can only be done if we completely, wholeheartedly, and repentantly surrender to our Savior, Jesus. “Let a man examine himself” (1 Cor 11:28).