Asking yourself hard questions
It’s ok to take a critical look at yourself. By critical, I mean examining with a fine-tooth comb as opposed to just getting down on oneself. If you start thinking you are stupid or dumb because of your actions, that is not helpful.
I recall meeting with a young man for the purpose of mentoring several years ago. During the first time we met, as we were talking about some of the things we might do as part of the mentoring process, one of the things I asked him was to list some of his weaknesses. There was silence and then he told me he could not think of any weakness. It concerned me greatly that he was not able to identify any weakness in himself as young Christian man who wanted to be discipled.
I suppose that it was possible that he had never been asked to think about that. I knew him quite well and knew his heart. He had a strong desire to follow God and do what God wanted him to do. As with all of us, there were blind spots.