SEARCH MY HEART 2
"Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me ..." Psalm 139:23-24a
Yesterday I shared with you some probing questions written by David Powlison that helps to diagnose the idols of our hearts. Here are six additional questions to add to yesterday's questions.
Take some time to allow the Holy Spirit to use these to probe your heart:
7. What do you THINK you need? In most cases a person's FELT needs picture his or her idol cravings. Often what we have called necessities are actually deceptive masters that rule our hearts. They control us because they seem plausible. They don't seem so bad on the surface and it isn't sin to want them. However, I must not be ruled by the "need" to feel good about myself, to feel loved and accepted, to feel some sense of accomplishment, to have financial myself, to feel loved and accepted to feel some sense of accomplishment, to have financial security, to experience good health, to live a life that is organized, pain-free, and happy.
8. What are your plans, agendas, strategies, and intentions designed to accomplish? What are you really going to after in the situations and relationships of life? What are you really working to get?
9. What makes you tick? What sun does your planet revolve around? Where do you find your garden of delight? What light up your world? What food sustains your life? What really mattters to you? What are you living for?
10. Where do you find refuge, safety, comfort, and escape? When you are fearful, discouraged, and upset, where do you run? Do you run to God for comfort and safety or to something else? (To food, to others, to work, to solitude?)
11. What do you trust? Do you functionally rest in the Lord? Do you find your sense of well-being in His presence and promises? Or do you rest in something or someone else?
12. Whose performance matters to you? This question digs out self-reliance or self-righteousness. It digs out living through another. Do you get depressed when you are wrong or when you fail? Have you pinned your hopes or another person? Are you too dependent on the performance of your husband, wife, children or friends?
Take some time to allow the Holy Spirit to work through your heart. -- Bill Welte is President and CEO of America's KESWICK
God's WORD for YOU: Proverbs 18; Obadiah; Revelation 9
Great Quote: Christmas has lost its meaning for us because we have lost the spirit of expectancy. We cannot prepare for an observance. We must prepare for an
experience.-- Handel Brown
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