Taking Inventory of your Life, Heart, and Obedience

August 12, 2009

It always a good idea to take an inventory of your life at certain times of the year; to examine your heart; and to make sure your walking obediently to what God has called you to do. Take a look at this article and realistically look at yourself. Let’s take a moment to assess where we’ve been; where we are; and where we are headed.

May you find yourself in the middle of God’s hand!
Pastor Curtis

Here’s the excerpt from Mission Frontiers August 2009 magazine:

Taking Inventory of your Life Heart Obedience by Dorrel Dorr

Ralph Winter’s death has been the occasion for me to reflect more deeply on my life, to take inventory with a series of questions. You may wish to take a similar inventory of your life.

• Am I prepared to die? Am I afraid of death or of suffering before death? Am I eagerly anticipating heaven? Do I have any unfinished business on earth?

• Am I ready to live? Jesus said, “I have come that they may have life, and may have it in all its fullness” (John 10:10). Where is my life still lacking fullness? Where are my experiences and expectations feeble or attenuated? Where do I need to trust God more fully, to live life more deeply, to take more risks, to open my arms and my heart more widely?

• What has captivated my heart? Do my affections and ambitions need refreshment or realignment? Do I care about what God cares most about? Am I moving out into the broad, deep current of God’s purposes, or am I splashing around in puddles of my own making?

• Whose approval am I seeking? Am I living primarily in the fear of God and before the Audience of One? Where and when do I care too much about the approval of others?

• Am I a good steward of what God has given me? Do I understand what I have and hold in trust? Am I walking confidently in my calling, recognizing more clearly that place where “your deep gladness meets the world’s deep hunger” (Frederich Buechner)?

• Am I aging well, and will i finish well? Who am I becoming? Am I a joy to those who know me best? Where have my coping mechanisms become calcified or counter- productive? Am I becoming more mature in my character while remaining childlike in my spirit?

“It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of every man; the living should take this to heart.” Ecclesiastes 7:2 NIV

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