Note 2 at 1 Cor. 4:3: This is a wonderful truth. We should not judge ourselves. Paul was not critical of himself.

Just from a logical standpoint, we are the least qualified to evaluate ourselves. It's impossible to be truly objective or impartial. Those who honestly try to be unbiased, usually over react and therefore tend to be harder on themselves than anyone else would be. We are our own worst critic.

Paul gave us a key to how he kept on course in Philippians 3:15. He said, "Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you".

Paul simply sought God with all his heart (that's what being thus minded means-Phil. 3:13-14), and he trusted God to reveal to him anything that needed to be changed. He was not introspective. He depended on God to keep him walking the straight and narrow.

Being self-analytical can be a big inroad of Satan into our lives. Those who are not seeking God have no other choice. They have to evaluate themselves. But for us who are seeking the Lord, God Himself will take responsibility for pointing out the things that need to be dealt with in our lives.