Think It Over

Here are several very personal questions to help you know how severe we need to be with ourselves in order to "abstain from wickedness." Answer each one honestly.

• Are you regularly with a person of the opposite sex in inappropriate situations?


• Are you completely above reproach in all your financial dealings, including your taxes?


• Do you expose yourself to explicit sexual material?


• If you have a family, do you invest sufficient time with them?


• Do you tell the truth? How often do you lie (don't forget to count the little white ones)?


• How quickly do you say "I am wrong; I am genuinely sorry" when you have said or done something that hurts another?


• Do you hold grudges?


• Are you knowingly compromising in some area of your life, refusing to acknowledge the consequences that you will surely have to face?


• Have you formed a habit that is detrimental to your health or your job or your walk with Christ?


• Are you proud, selfish, arrogant?


• Have you taken credit for something that someone else did and should have been rewarded for?


• Do you return things you borrow?


• Have you failed to confess something to someone who should know of your wrongdoing?


• Are you abusing your mate or your children---physically or emotionally?


• Do you allow abuse to happen without seeking help?


• Do you regularly spend time in prayer and in the Scriptures?