The Inward Look

(Philippians 3:10-12 AMP) [For my determined purpose is] that I may know Him [that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and more clearly], and that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection [which it exerts over believers], and that I may so share His sufferings as to be continually transformed [in spirit into His likeness even] to His death, [in the hope] that if possible I may attain to the [spiritual and moral] resurrection [that lifts me] out from among the dead [even while in the body]. Not that I have now attained [this ideal], or have already been made perfect, but I press on to lay hold of (grasp) and make my own, that for which Christ Jesus (the Messiah) has laid hold of me and made me His own.

A healthy spiritual world view toward an inward look is not self searched. But it is first a looking to know Him and to be God searched. A healthy inward look is to know and to be known by God. Anything else, any other type of self analysis, leads to faulty conclusions. Our true identity is hid in Christ alone. We need to diligently pursue to know Him and to be known by Him; to be God searched.