Have you ever had a caricature drawn of yourself or seen one of someone else? The artist exaggerates your features, emphasizing traits that stand out or might be seen as imperfections. The distorted image created entertains but does not reflect your true self.
 
Like a caricature, the self-image we create often highlights our perceived weaknesses and downplays our actual strengths. This skewed picture is shaded with self-doubt. It does not reflect our true self, created “to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do” (