Personal Reflection Part Five

This week we have received biblical and intensely relevant counsel for overcoming the sins of anger, anxiety, and escapism. As common as these sins are, we face many other temptations as well: selfishness, arrogance, lust, greed, vanity...and I'm just getting started.

Mindful of this reality, Dr. Powlison has provided us with eight questions that will help us recognize what sinful desire is ruling our heart, identify what the Bible says to us in our specific situation, and take actives steps to repent and change.

In my own efforts to apply God's Word to my life, nothing has helped me more than these eight questions. I've used them countless times, and I have no doubt you will too.

Personal Reflection, cont.
by Dr. David Powlison

Questions

1.    What is your situation?  What are you facing?

2.    How do you react?  How are you typically tempted to react?

3.    What rules you, capturing your heart?  What do you want? Fear? Believe?

4.    What does God in Christ say and do that enters, addresses, and changes everything?

5.    Respond to God from the heart.  Listen.  Turn. Trust.  Come.  Seek.  Ask.  Talk.   Transact.

6.    Respond constructively into your situation.  Speak.  Act. Don’t do.