Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.
It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.
It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
We have to be careful not to look for confidence in the acceptance of others because true confidence only comes from knowing God.
We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves.
If you believe in yourself, then everything is going to look great on you.
If I can avoid looking at myself, I will. I don't care to examine myself or see much of what I do. I never care how I look.
In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
Certain though I am - and ever more certain - that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.
No one has to be taught to trust in themselves. No one has to be taught that what you experience inside yourself is more authoritative than what comes to you externally, even if it comes from God. Since the Fall, it has been part of our character to look within ourselves.