Getting Your Bearings

The New Year gives us an opportunity to stop and evaluate where we are going.  We do it for our work, hopefully for our family and our most important relationships, but we should also work through the exercise regarding our relationship with God.
 
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. 

This past week one of our Skycrest Team members gave me a list of questions that will help guide you through the process of "considering your ways!"  
 

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?