Tomorrow I am heading out to Riverview for a "day with God."  It is just a day of reflection on my life, my relationship with God, my family, my work, etc.  In the past (especially in college) these used to be an annual or semi-annual occurrence.  Unfortunately, I have allowed the clutter in my life to crowd out these times.  So... tomorrow I am "disciplining" it in.

I have found it best not to write a list of tasks for the time or even to make a schedule.  Rather, just take the day slowly, spend lots of time in prayer - mostly listening, perhaps a little reading.  The only thing on my agenda is to spend some time reflecting on my life through a bunch of questions from Donald S. Whitney.

1. What ‘s one thing you could do this year to increase your enjoyment of God?
2. What’s the most humanly impossible thing you will ask God to do this year?
3. What’s the single most important thing you could do to improve the quality of your family life this year?
4. In which spiritual discipline do you most want to make progress this year, and what will you do about it?
5. What is the single biggest time-waster in your life, and what will you do about it this year?
6. What is the most helpful new way you could strengthen your church?
7. For whose salvation will you pray most fervently this year?
8. What’s the most important way you will, by God’s grace, try to make this year different from last year?
9. What one thing could you do to improve your prayer life this year?
10. What single thing that you plan to do this year will matter most in 10 years? In eternity?
11. What’s the most important decision you need to make this year?
12. What area of your life most needs simplifying, and what’s one way you could simplify in that area?
13. What’s the most important need you feel burdened to meet this year?
14. What habit would you most like to establish this year?
15. Who do you most want to encourage this year?
16. What is your most important financial goal this year, what is the most important step you can take toward achieving it?
17. What’s the single most important thing you could do to improve the quality of your work life this year?
18. What’s one new way you could be a blessing to your pastor (or to another who ministers to you) this year?
19. What’s one thing you could do this year to enrich the spiritual legacy you will leave to your children and grandchildren?
20. What book, in addition to the Bible, do you most want to read this year?
21. What one thing do you most regret about last year, and what will you do about it this year?
22. What single blessing from God do you want to seek most earnestly this year?
23. In what area of your life do you most need growth, and what will you do about it his year?
24. What’s the most important trip you want to take this year?
25. What skill do you most want to learn or improve this year?
26. To what need or ministry will you try to give an unprecedented amount this year?
27. What’s the single most important thing you could do to improve the quality of you commute this year?
28. What one biblical doctrine do you most want to understand better this year, and what will you do about it?
29. If those who know you best gave you one piece of advice, what would they say? Would they be right? What will you do about it?
30. What’s the most important new item you want to buy this year?
31. In what area of your life do you most need change, and what will you do about it this year?

Dr. Whitney has these in word Word document handout form on his web site. 

(I didn't recognize Dr. Whitney's name until I went to his web site and saw that I have read his book, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, and appreciated it.  Furthermore, I used to regularly meet with Keith Draper at Glenfield Baptist in Glen Ellyn, IL which was Dr. Whitney's church.  Funny how things link together at times.)

Thursday, April 26, 2007 8:35:22 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)      Comments [8]