the year in review

Each time I get on the internet, my homepage shows msn.com, and there seems to be all sorts of end of the year articles these days reviewing "10 best films of 2009", "2009's worst scandals", "greatest sports moments of the year", etc., etc.. Before jumping into new year's resolutions for 2010, it's common for the media to help us look at the year in review.

A few years ago, a friend from church gave us a little self-assessment entitled, "10 Questions to ask to make sure you're still growing." I thought it would serve as a good self-awareness tool to help us do a year in review of our own lives. Here, at the end of 2009,

1. Are you more thirsty for God than ever before?
2. Are you more and more loving?
3. Are you more sensitive to and aware of God than ever before?
4. Are you governed more and more by God's Word?
5. Are you concerned more and more with the physical, spiritual, emotional, intellectual needs of others?
6. Are you more and more concerned with the Church and the Kingdom of God?
7. Are the disciplines of the Christian life more and more important to you?
8. Are you more and more aware of your sin?
9. Are you more and more willing to forgive others?
10. Are you thinking more and more of heaven and of being with Jesus?

Am I more like Jesus than I was a year ago? How might I order my life in 2010 to give God access and permission for spiritual growth?

May God richly bless your life in 2010 with more of Himself in your life!