When you really distill it down, you find that there is one sin that causes all sins. That one key sin is pride. Pride leads to seeking our own will instead of God's. Pride makes us justify what we do. Pride makes us do wrong, and pride prevents us from admitting that we have done wrong.
One of the first steps in repentance is humility. Now just to be clear, humility is not this walking about with a sad downtrodden look, pretending to be nothing. Humility is seeing and understanding the truth about our own situation. Humility is seeing ourselves as we really are. Not justifying ourselves or pretending we are great because we think we have accomplished something. No, if we are really humble, we will see ourselves as who we are. Only by becoming humble can we break down our deep rooted pride and start this process of becoming truly better than our natural state.
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