In Proverbs, chapter sixteen, verse two, “All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.” Believers are often blind to their faults and their spiritual poverty. If we are honest when we come to God in prayer, He will reveal the real condition of our hearts. So that we might be truly clean and better follow the Holy Spirit, as in Luke sixteen, verse fifteen, “And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
The truth of the matter is in First Corinthians four, verses four through five, “For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God. God will bring to light the secret acts of all persons and expose their true thoughts and motives, good as well as bad. In other words, the inner lives of everyone will be exactly as they were, and nothing will be left hidden.
The theme title reminds us of the verse in Matthew seven, verses three to five, “And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye.”