"But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged. But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world."
When we examine ourselves, God already knows what we will find. God knows what is in your heart and life that needs to be confessed, and we need to be honest with the Lord about what we find. If we perform a self-examination and fail to be honest, we might as well not examine ourselves in the first place.
If we properly examine ourselves, we will not be judged by God. However, if we fail to truly judge ourselves and are then judged by God, the judgment is better explained as discipline. God is working on us, bringing us to a point that we will be rightly and honestly related to the Lord.
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