"Consider your ways!" (Haggai 1:5)
Once, when the people of God had become careless in their relationship with Him, the Lord rebuked them through the prophet Haggai. "Consider your ways!" (Haggai 1:5) he declared, urging them to reflect on some of the things happening to them and to evaluate their slipshod spirituality in light of what God had told them.
Even those most faithful to God occasionally need to pause and think about the direction of their lives. It's so easy to bump along from one busy week to another without ever stopping to ponder where we're going and where we should be going.
The beginning of a new year is an ideal time to stop, look up and get our bearings. For starters, here are 10 questions to ask prayerfully in the presence of God:
- What's one thing you could do in 2008 to increase your enjoyment of God?
- What's the most humanly impossible thing you will ask God to do in 2008 where His power is manifested in your powerlessness?
- What's the single most important thing you could do to improve the quality of your family life in 2008?
- In which spiritual discipline do you most want to make progress in 2008, and what will you do about it?
- What is the single biggest time-waster in your life, and what will you do about it in 2008?
- What is the most helpful new way you could strengthen the ministry God has given you?
- For whose salvation will you pray most fervently in 2008?
- What's the most important way you will, by God's grace, try to make 2008 different from last year?
- What one thing could you do to improve your prayer life in 2008?
- What single thing that you plan to do in 2008 will matter most in 5 to 10 years time?
Have a God-filled year ahead!
