Examine Your Life and Grow Closer to God!
Want to talk to someone? Click Here! Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I’d rather be living. ~ Saul Bellow
Recognize your strengths, address weaknesses, and walk in faith!
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On this page, we encourage you to regularly and honestly examine yourself to recognize your strengths, address weaknesses, and align your life with God’s purpose. We emphasize asking whether you love God and others, and growing through Bible reading, prayer, reliance on the Holy Spirit, and church involvement. My experience of overcoming addiction illustrates my central message: seek God’s guidance rather than others’ approval, and let faith and love shape your choices.
Please remember to look over your life regularly. Don’t think this is a one-time thing; our lives are ever-changing. We face different challenges every day, and we encounter new opportunities all the time. To keep up with these changes, we need to regularly examine our lives so we remain aware of what’s going on around us. This way, we can determine how God wants us to respond in any given situation.
2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you—unless you fail the test?
How to Examine Your Life With God’s Guidance?
Examine Your Life Through the Lens of Faith
Remember to consider both your strengths and weaknesses when examining your life, because it helps you understand who God wants you to be, rather than focusing only on what you lack. Keep moving forward, and know that each examination brings new opportunities to grow into a better version of yourself! ~ Bill Greguska
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Christian Self-Examination: Take an Honest Look Within
Examine your life often, my dear friend. It’s not a one-time deal that you can check off your to-do list forever. No! Life is constantly changing, and so must our examination. We need to stay aware of what is going on in our lives so we can be the person God wants us to become. Don’t shy away from asking yourself profound yet straightforward questions, like “Am I truly living out God’s purpose for me?” or “Am I loving others as He loves me?”
These inquiries will guide you toward a fulfilling life. Remember to acknowledge both your strengths and weaknesses, because they shape who you are. Don’t just focus on what needs improvement; celebrate the wonderful things about yourself, too! So don’t delay any longer; take some time today to examine your life with open eyes, an open heart, and, most importantly, with God by your side.
How to Take a Spiritual Inventory of Your Life
You can also ask a close friend who knows you well, or an accountability partner, to help you examine your life.
- Read your Bible daily. Do not be content to skim through a chapter merely to satisfy your conscience. Hide the Word of God in your heart. It comforts, guides, corrects, and encourages — all we need.
- Learn the secret of prayer. Prayer is communicating. Every prayer that you pray will be answered. Sometimes the answer is “Yes,” sometimes “No,” and sometimes “Wait,” but it will be answered.
- Rely regularly on the Holy Spirit. We know that the Holy Spirit prays for us (Romans 8), and what comfort that is to the weakest among us. Stand aside and let Him take over all the choices and decisions of your life.
- Attend church regularly. The visible church is Christ’s organization upon the earth. Christians need one another; we need to gather together to worship God, and nothing can replace church attendance.
Examine Your Life Without Dwelling on Past Mistakes
Be A Witnessing Christian!
- We witness in two ways: by life and by word, and, where possible, the two should go hand in hand.
- Let love be the ruling principle of your life. Jesus said to those who followed Him, “By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples if ye have love one to another” (John 13:35). The best demonstration that we are Christians is loving one another.
- Be an obedient Christian. Put Christ first in every life choice.
- Learn how to meet temptation. Temptation is not a sin. Yielding is a sin. Let Christ, through the Holy Spirit, fight for you.
- Be a wholesome Christian. Our lives and appearance should commend the Gospel and make it attractive to others.
- Live above your circumstances. Don’t let your circumstances get you down. Learn to live graciously within them, realizing the Lord Himself is with you.
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- How can I know if my heart’s desires are from God?
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- What are the dangers and consequences of unconfessed sin?
Are You Ready To Examine Your Life?
Please take a look at your life and identify some of your significant accomplishments to date. The list below is NOT an ego-bragging list. This list shows that we all have skills, achievements, and abilities, even if we don’t recognize them. You will realize how beautifully blessed you have been.
We need to focus on the good we have done with God’s help and stop dwelling on our past faults and failures; instead, learn from them and turn the page, as my brother Tom told me. For example, I’ve written below to give you ideas. Use what I wrote to guide you to the highlights of your life:
- Born July 8, 1960, I was the youngest of four siblings.
- I became a good basketball player in grade school and high school from 1970 77.
- I got off drugs and alcohol in 1986.In 1986,
- I came to understand God’s importance in my life and was Born Again.
- I quit smoking cigarettes in 1988.
- I worked at Elmbrook Church from 1990 to 1995.
- I had some good friends and was somewhat popular throughout my life.
- I built wheelchair ramps for Faith Indeed from 1994 to 2005.
- I married and raised a son, Chris, and my daughter, Sherry.
- I took care of my 93-year-old mother for the last eight years of her life, from 2006 to 2014.
- With help from Ron and Sue Sauer, I started the NeedEncouragement.com ministry in 2007.
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Do You Pray Faithfully?
Living In the Past ~ Present ~ Or Future?
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways, submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6
We all face problems in life. Some are preventable; others occur. I am sure you are dealing with something today, whether it involves big decisions or not. Do you have problems with marriage, family, friendships, depression, anxiety, addiction, or whatever you struggle with? There are solutions to your problems. It would help if you searched for the answers. Start by discovering in your heart that you want to live a better life. First, examine your life, reflect on the real roots of your problems and strengths, and ask God to direct you.
- Some of you do not want anything to do with God or Jesus Christ.
- Some of you attend church to check off your good-deed list, as I used to when I was growing up.
- But I hope most of us worship and praise God from the heart, because we genuinely believe.
My point is that without God leading your life, you will most likely end up living in what I refer to as a self-inflicted mini hell that I put myself through, all because I wanted to impress others, be accepted, and fulfill the desires of my flesh. That way of life was before I got to know Jesus Christ in 1986, when I went through drug and alcohol treatment. Since then, the Lord has taken that addiction from me. I was able to take off my mask. ~ Bill Greguska
How To Examine Your Life With The 4 Steps?
Some Specific Scriptures To Encourage You:
2 Corinthians 13:5 ESV
Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves: that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail the test!
Psalm 139:23-24 ESV
Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
2 Timothy 2:15 ESV
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
Romans 12:2 ESV
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what the will of God is, that is good and acceptable and perfect.
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