romans 1.29-31

...being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness, they are whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful...

I look at this list and find that I am disgusted and appalled. What a base, wicked and horrific description of any existence.

Yet... this is exactly the description I would have if I would find for myself in the Bible... this is my description. I have no reason to hold my head above it. No, I have no standing above the owners of this description in any way.

This is who I am, yet God chose to save me.