Reflective Questions
Overall
What are you living for?
Are you just like the rest of the world?
Would the world see a difference in you?
Would that main difference be the one in which you actually follow?
What are you doing with your time, relationships, money, desires, efforts, job, etc?
What does God want for you?
Are you faithful to God and life management/stewardship?
Are you in preparation and training for the next day living for him just as much as the new year?
Do people trust you?
Are you faithful to your word and beliefs?
Are you glorifying God with your life or glorifying your lifestyle and the world?
If someone followed my life, would they be a disciple of Jesus, a lifestyle, or the world?
Change or Consistency
What needs to be different this new year?
What needs to change?
What needs to stay consistent?
Prayer
Is your prayer life active now?
Is your prayer life focused on yourself like comfort, health, doing better, or complaining?
Is your prayer life focused on God and what he wants for you and your life?
Is your prayer life reflective of the care for God’s mission in making and training disciples and you being his disciples?
Church
Are you a Christian and part of a local church?
Are you participating in God’s mission to the world?
Are you participating in the making and training of disciples of Jesus?
Are you faithful to church gatherings?
Are you faithful to be present, aware, engage, relating, and available?
Are you faithful to financially give a portion of what God’s provided for you to the local church?
Are you faithfully generous to people God has placed in your life?
Are you faithfully generous to Christian ministries internationally for God’s global mission?
Have you “tithed” more in your lifestyle, businesses, government, insurance, and health than to God’s church — locally and globally?
How can you serve, help, engage, consider, encourage, and learn?
Are you a burden to yourself, people, pastors, and society?
Are you sharing burdens with the church community to share in helping?
What talent can you improve and use for God in or outside of church gatherings?
Job(s)/Work
Are you hard working?
Do you work for money or “have to” or for the Lord?
Do you care at your workplace?
Do you care for others in your workplace, including difficult co-workers, clients, or vendors?
Do you consider how God is using you in the current job situation?
Are you working with a complaining heart or learning to be worked on by God?
If you need a job/career change, are you praying about it? Seeking counsel from wise, Christian people?
Are you living like a Job or Boaz or a King Nebuchadnezzar?
Are you like Joseph sold into a horrendous situation, crying out to the Lord for direction and working hard for him in the midst of the hardship and suffering?
Are you budgeting and planning well of your time, income, expenses, ideas, etc.?
How can you leave well from the current job when you transition to another?
How can you faithfully stay during a company’s hardship that may impact you and your family, sharing their burden, and trying to help them through long-term?
Marriage
Are you faithful to what God wants for your marriage?
Are you faithful to the vows from your wedding?
Is your marriage filled with love that includes consideration and care?
Are you faithful to your spouse?
Are you lusting for a different life without your spouse?
Are you looking for ways to care for your spouse long-term?
Have you prepared for your death and how that will impact your spouse?
Have you talked through life short and long-term plans, including death?
Are you hospitable with God’s provision in your life with your home, time, schedule, finances, and jobs?
Are you hoarding your time, attention, and lifestyle?
How can God be glorified in your marriage?
What needs to be repented of, forgiven, and changed?
What needs to stay consistent?
Parenting
Are you a parent that values your child(ren)?
Are you a parent, single/divorced/married, that trains your child(ren) in the Bible, life skills, and future?
Do you include children in life’s tasks like chores, jobs, budgeting, bills, neighbors, situations, etc.?
Singleness
Are you wasting time?
Are you purposeless?
Are you wanting to be in a relationship that leads to marriage? If so, are you improving in your character, personality, identity, interactions, and overall ability to relate to others?
Are you serving the Lord with your available time, job(s), finances, and relationships?
Are you serving the church and families?
Death
Are you prepared?
Have you created a will or living trust?
Have you planned on paper how others are to handle what you leave behind?
Have you planned to bless others with your death by being prepared?
If available, do you have term life insurance? If so, have you named your beneficiaries (family, church, those in need, etc.)?
Are you communicating rightly about life and death?
Are you focused on death instead of life for God?
Are you confident you will be with God after death? If so, why? And did your answer have a name — Jesus?
Christian, Stand firm
“Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.” 1 Corinthians 16:13
“Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith.” 2 Corinthians 1:24
“For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.” Galatians 5:1
“Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.” Ephesians 6:13
“Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved.” Philippians 4:1
“So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter.” 2 Thessalonians 2:15
“By Silvanus, a faithful brother as I regard him, I have written briefly to you, exhorting and declaring that this is the true grace of God. Stand firm in it.” 1 Peter 5:12
