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Step Ten Taking A Look At My Life Today

Friday June 10, 2022
 

 It’s a useful practice to take regular inventory of our lives.  It will help us maintain spiritual, emotional, and relational health. 

 But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves. But if you look carefully into the perfect law that sets you free, and if you do what it says and don’t forget what you heard, then God will bless you for doing it. Exercise daily in God—no spiritual flabbiness, please! Workouts in the gymnasium are useful, but a disciplined life in God is far more so, making you fit both today and forever.”  (James 1:22, 25 NLT, 1 Timothy 4:7-8 MSG) 

SPOT CHECK INVENTORY: In each situation where we begin to experience things not going well, we need to pause and note what’s right and what’s wrong.  What are we feeling? What’s going on beneath the feeling?  What are we expecting?  What is God’s direction in what is going on?  Are we living the Golden Rule in this moment, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you?”  
DAILY INVENTORY:  At the end of each day, we talk with God about the events of our day and listen for His encouragement, His correction, and His instruction.  Any actions that we think we need to repent of, we ask God for forgiveness and receive it.  Where we behaved with good intentions, good thoughts and good actions, we note them and give God thanks for supporting us in all our ways. 


The Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him; though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the Lord upholds him with his hand. (
Psalm 37:23-24 NIV)

God has a plan which will bring meaning and joy to our lives.  As we plot our course, God will direct our steps and we will be enriched by goodness and love through each step of the journey.  Regularly taking inventory helps keep us on the path as we get to know God’s good plan for our lives.

 


Prayer:  Heavenly Father, help me to see myself as you see me.  Help me to rejoice in what is going well and promptly admit what needs to be confessed and changed.  Thank you for being with me in every circumstance and for teaching me Your principles for living life well.  Amen

 

 

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