Search My Heart Part 3
Spiritual heart surgery is tough stuff, especially when you are trying to examine the idols of the heart. Here is the next series of questions to help us on the journey:
13. Whom must you please? Whose opinion counts? From whom do you desire approval or fear rejection? Whose value system do you measure yourself against? In whose eyes are you living?
14. Who are your role models? Who are the people you respect? Who do you want to be like? Who is your "idol"? (In our culture, this word is used for role model!)
15. What do you desperately hope will last in your life? What do you feel must always be there? What can you live without?
16. How do you define success or failure in any particular situation? Are your standards God's standards? Do you define success as the ability to reach your goals? The respect and approval of others? Is it defined by a certain position or the ability to maintain a certain lifestyle? By affluence? By appearance? By location? By accomplishment?
17. What makes you feel rich, secure, prosperous? The possession, experience, and enjoyment of what would make you happy? The Bible uses the metaphor of treasure here.
18. What would bring you the greatest pleasure? The greatest misery?
These questions are from X Ray Questions by David Powlison. Good questions to ask yourself. -- Bill Welte is President and CEO of America's KESWICK
God's WORD for You: Proverbs 19; Jonah; Revelation 10
Great Quote: I want deliberately to encourage this mighty longing after God. The lack
of it has brought us to our present low estate. The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted. Too bad that with many of us He waits so long, so very long, in vain. -- A. W. Tozer
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