SEARCHING AND FEARLESS MORAL INVENTORY

When making an inventory of our lives before God, some basic questions to ask are:  "God what does my life look like to You?  How have I strayed from Your directives?  What needs to go?  What needs to be sought after with everything I have in me so I can really live?"

In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God’s promises. Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone. (2 Peter 1:5-7 NLT)

Our addictive behaviour is almost certainly rooted in the problems we experienced in relationships we have had in the past.  Wrong beliefs and actions formed from the pain and brokenness we suffered. When doing an inventory that is searching, fearless, and moral, we must examine the way we think and ask ourselves, “What is the root cause of the way I think and behave?”  We must look not only at what we did, but the reason we did it. 

No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us. (Philippians 3:13-14 NLT)

Like a skillful surgeon God will help us identify and then remove from us those things that have hindered us from living a good and pleasing life.  We will come to appreciate what a purposeful life looks like when we inventory our behaviour in the light of God’s Word as recorded in the Bible. 

Prayer: Loving God, The act of uncovering what I have tried to cover up and run from in the past is extremely challenging for me.  However, in the safety of Your love and care and guidance, I am determined to make a searching, fearless, and moral inventory of myself.  Please help me! Amen