14 Questions to Ask Yourself in 2014

Happy New Year!  I pray that everyone had an excellent time gathering with family and friends.  Now it is time to begin a new year with hope and dreams of what could be.  Might I also add that this is an excellent time to reflect or as the prophet Haggi said, "Consider your ways!"  (Haggai 1:5)  he declared this to urge the people to reflect on some of the things happening to them and to evaluate their slipshod spirituality in light of what God had told them.  We can become so busy with daily living that we can easily forget to pause and ask tough questions to ourselves.  We need to pause and rethink!  So here we go:

1. What is one thing that you can do to increase your enjoyment of God?
2.   What is the single most important thing you can do to improve your family life this year?
3.   In which spiritual discipline do you most want to make progress, and what will you do about it?
4. What is the most helpful way you could strengthen local church this year?
5.  For whose salvation will you pray most fervently this year?
6. What one thing could you do to improve your prayer life this year?
7.  What is one way you could be a blessing to a leader or staff member of your church?
8.  In what area of your life do you most need growth and what are you going to do about it?
9. What one biblical doctrine do you most want to understand better this year, and what will you do about it?
10.  In what area of your life do you most need change and what are you going to do about it?
11.  Who do you most want to encourage this year?
12.  What book, in addition to the Bible, do you most want to read this year?
13. What one thing to you regret about last year, and what will you do about it this year?
14. What is the most important decision you need to make this year?

The Word of God instructs us in Proverbs 21:5

"The plans of the diligent certainly lead to profit, but anyone who is reckless certainly becomes poor."

Let us be wise with the time God has granted us in 2014 and be diligent with all the resources we have.  Also remember that we will try to sabotage ourselves with the goals or resolutions we will set in the new year, so be mindful of this as we move into this year.  I would like to thank Don Whitney for helping me to think through these questions.  I pray you have a blessed 2014!