If You Want To Find Yourself Stop Hiding From Yourself

No one can know God or their great need for Him until they have first acknowledged their discrepancy to the model human being.  A quiet and thoughtful examination of self first and foremost reveals someone depraved and eager to do and be anything but the universal standard of human being.  It is the glib soul that whistles by his own graveyard willfully oblivious to his need, living merrily in the deceitfulness of his own legend.  One of the kindest gifts of God is that He creates in the believer a genuine sympathetic care for all those that have yet seen themselves, as those identical to you before God.  It is this sympathetic care, this sense of responsibility to the lost, that almost always testifies to your own belief.  I once was lost but now I’m found.  No one finds himself but only finds himself to be lost.  The Loving Seeker finds.

Jan Wijnant's Good Samaritan