Step Four

Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

That we can take stock of our lives in any fashion is the most utter ignorance or ineffable arrogance.

David sang the following in the Psalms:

"Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:" (Psams 139: 23)
This verse could not be more direct when it comes to the futility of taking a full and uncompromising inventory:

"Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults." (Psalm 19: 12)

Also, by what standard, or by what metric does a man or woman "take his inventory?" The Big Book provides absolutely nothing to lead a man through documenting and organizing his faults.

Rather than seeking to find out what we have done wrong, in Christ, we can lean on the assurance that in Him, all our sins have been forgiven, even the sins that we have committed but have not itemized:

"And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world."

All the sins of the whole world -- that includes yours, mine, and anyone else's, and this covers past, present, and future:

"According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:" (Ephesians 1: 4)