[metmom]

Amen.

Seems like the closer I get to God, the more aware of the depths of sin in my life and how it taints EVERYTHING.

There’s not a thing I can think of that I’ve ever done that hasn’t had some self-serving motive in it.

Course, if I could, then I’d probably feel proud of it.

Ya just can’t win.

[OneWingedShark]

Amen.
Seems like the closer I get to God, the more aware of the depths of sin in my life and how it taints EVERYTHING.

And the more we can/should give grateful thanks to God for Jesus.

There’s not a thing I can think of that I’ve ever done that hasn’t had some self-serving motive in it.

Careful there, just because something benefits you (one interpretation of "self-serving") doesn't mean that it's bad/sinful — take eating as an example; we clearly know that Adam and Eve [could/did] eat before the fall. (This likely means that they got hungry, too.) So eating in and of itself isn't a sin, even though there's an obvious "self-serving" benefit.

[Though eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil obviously was.]