Twelve questions to keep your personal accounts in order
- Am I content with who I am becoming? Every day I get one day closer to who I will ultimately be. Am I satisfied with who this will be?
- Am I becoming less religious and more spiritual? The difference: I can control religion, while spirituality controls me.
- Does my family recognize the authenticity of my spirituality? If I am growing spiritually, my family will recognize it.
- Do I have a flow-through philosophy? As a Christian I am to let the blessings flow through me to others.
- Do I have a quiet center to my life? There is an important difference between the fast track and the frantic track. Peace is the evidence of God.
- Have I defined my unique ministry? Unless you know the things you can do uniquely well, you end up doing many mediocre things just to please others.
- Is my prayer life improving? One test is: Do my decisions have prayer as an integral part, or do I make decisions out of my desires and then pray?
- Have I maintained genuine awe of God? Awe inspires, overwhelms, intimidates my humanness, and inspires worship.
- Is my humility genuine? Two definitions of humility I like: “Humility is accepting your strength with gratitude,” and “Humility is not denying the power that you have but admitting the power comes through you, not from you.”
- Is my spiritual feeding the right diet for me? My spiritual reading time is “a feeding time.” It must be fitted to my needs.
- Is obedience in small matters built into my reflexes? Obedience largely determines my relationship with Christ.
- Do I have joy? Joy is promised me, if the relationship with Christ is right.