We can experience failure in our family, leading to self-condemnation. We're an inadequate marriage partner, an inadequate parent, an inadequate child to older parents, an inadequate sibling. It's our fault. Lastly, we experience failure before God. He has given us spiritual gifts that go unused.
Quiet times are dry and infrequent.
For all of these failures, our hearts condemn us. Defeated by compulsions Defeat is the other reason our hearts condemn us. Sinful habits defeat us time and again. We have compulsive behaviors regarding food, drugs, alcohol, sex, anger, or laziness. We act compulsively and then condemn ourselves for being defeated by the same problem over and over again.