No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
-John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck, American novelist, is best known for The Grapes of Wrath which summed up the bitterness of the Great Depression and aroused widespread sympathy for the plight of migratory farmworkers.
John’s quote brought me to what the Scriptures have to say about our nature.
1 John 1:8
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
Romans 7:18
For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.
Anyone analyzing himself should realize he needs a Savior. Guess what, God has provided One.
Give it some thought.
Gary