Things to Think About This 2008

We're not quite a month into the 2008 year, so before we get any further, I thought I'd share with you this article I found on the Lifeway website. The article is titled "Questions for a New Year" by Don Whitney.

The questions that Whitney asks can be a challenge and require that we all take the time to go into deep thought and prayer about how God wants us to focus on our life this year.

Here are the first 1o questions taken from the article:

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 10 years? In eternity?

There are 31 questions in all, so I suggest that you visit the article online. I just didn't want to overwhelm anyone with 31 questions right from the start. Only those with the courage to live as part of God's army need continue. Click here for the article.

One might argue that we should just live for today, and I definitely agree in living for today since today may be our last. But I think it's important to live for today with a focus for the direction that the rest of our lives will take us - no matter how far away that may be in the future. As Whitney points out in his article, God doesn't want us to be aimlessly living from day to day without regard to where we are going. We need to look to God for guidance each and every day of our lives. And we ought to evaluate and re-evaluate where we are and where God is directing us to be.