Ten Questions

In today’s message I referred to Don Whitney’s blog, biblicalspirituality.com. As promised, I am providing in today’s blog the list of ten questions he believes you should ask yourself at the beginning of each year and also at your birthday. I provide them for you, hoping you will take time on this last day of 2006 to prepare for every day in 2007.

As I said in my message this morning, I am not big into New Year’s Resolutions. However, I am big on the critical evaluation that comes naturally as the result of entering a new year.

Take time today to wrestle with these questions:

1. What's one thing you could do this year to increase your enjoyment of God?

2. What's the most humanly impossible thing you will ask God to do this year?

3. What's the single most important thing you could do to improve the quality of your family life this year?

4. In which spiritual discipline do you most want to make progress this year, and what will you do about it?

5. What is the single biggest time-waster in your life, and what will you do about it this year?

6. What is the most helpful new way you could strengthen your church?

7. For whose salvation will you pray most fervently this year?

8. What's the most important way you will, by God's grace, try to make this year different from last year?

9. What one thing could you do to improve your prayer life this year?

10. What single thing that you plan to do this year will matter most in ten years? In eternity?