You can try and strive your whole life touting the best of intentions ;being a “good” person and it will never be enough. Selfish ambition and vain conceit motivate many efforts …
I learned at my very “best” my heart could be untruthful and mislead me. In order for the truth to “set me free” I had to first shatter the lies that had deceived me.

There is no good in me but that of Jesus. He alone justifies.