James 1:23-24 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

A dear brother once told me that not everyone is introspective. I found that amazing, not because of the truth of the matter, but because I couldn’t imagine a life lived without introspection. My failing to those people is that I don’t understand them. I have always been introspective. My problem in my earlier years is that I did not like what I saw in myself.

James tells us to be reflective, to see if we can look at ourselves in the mirror and notice change. Having done that, can you hold that image in your mind as you leave the mirror? The issue here is consistent behavior. Are you the same person alone that you are in public? No one tell you that except yourself. An honest evaluation of self is required to do that.

I have never lied to myself. Much of my life I was disappointed in myself. I lived a life of regret because I couldn’t find the strength within myself to act any other way. I even said this is the way God made me, get over it. That was true and yet not the whole truth. What was missing was Christ in me who could and would strengthen the inner man, to do what is right.

Ephesians 3:16-19 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

Know Christ in you.