SELF-EXAMINATION

SELF-EXAMINATION

 In I Corinthians 11:28, the Apostle Paul admonishes us: “Let a man examine himself.”  According to the Greek philosopher, Socrates, “The unexamined life is not worth living.”  To wit, Gordon MacDonald in “Rebuilding Your Broken World,” offers twenty-six insightful questions to aid in the development of personal spiritual accountability.  It’s a very effective tool for self-examination:

 

1. How is your relationship with God right now?
2. What have you read in the Bible in the past week?
3. What has God said to you in this reading?
4. Where do you find yourself resisting Him these days?
5. What specific things are you praying for in regard to yourself?
7. What are the specific tasks facing you right now that you consider incomplete?
8. What habits intimidate you?
9. What have you read in the secular press this week?
10. What general reading are you doing?
11. What have you done to play?
12. How are you doing with your spouse? Your kids?
13. If I were to ask your spouse about your state of mind, state of spirit, state of energy, what would the response be?
14. Are you sensing spiritual attacks from the enemy right now?
15. If Satan were to try to invalidate you as a person or as a servant of the Lord, how might he do it?
16. What is the state of your sexual perspective? Tempted? Dealing with fantasies? Entertainment? Mutual marital fulfillment?
17. Where are you financially right now? Things under control? Under anxiety? In great debt?
18. Are there any unresolved conflicts in your circle of relationships right now?
19. When was the last time you spent time with a good friend of your own gender?
20. How have you interacted with non-Christians recently?
21. What challenges do you think you’ll face in the coming week? Month?
22. What would you say are your fears at this present time?
23. Are you sleeping well?
24. What three things are you most thankful for?
25. At this point in your spiritual pilgrimage, do you like yourself?
26. What are your greatest questions about your relationship with God? 

 Let your prayerful self-examination begin…

 Sisters and brothers, be continually blessed, and please (above all else) MAKE SURE YOU ARE READY TO MEET OUR SOON COMING KING. Maranatha!