The next time you find yourself tending toward introspection, refuse to do it. Instead, come to the light. How? Pray the prayer found in Psalm 139:23—24: “Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” Look up, not in. You do not have to look for sin. You will find sin much more quickly, starkly, and with a solution attached if you come to God and the completed work of Jesus Christ.
