Dane Tyner

A Spiritual-life Inventory in Seven Questions



Posted: Sunday, March 09, 2008

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Home Improvement Ministry

The following seven questions should help you evaluate your spiritual life.  Caution: one or more of these may bring you to your knees in repentance.

1. How many yesterdays must God faithfully carry you through before you are ready to trust His provision today and tomorrow?

2. How many crises must God enable you to survive before you are ready to trust Him for whatever He allows to come your way?

3. How many times must you take that Broadway with "everyone else" before you accept that His Narrow Way is really better?

4. How many times must you experience the liberty that comes with Truth before you stop being afraid of it?

5. How long, in fear, will you have to obsess with getting before, in faith, you discover the blessing of giving?

6. How many times must you be humiliated in your pride before you are willing to choose humility?

7. How many times will you unproductively blame your problems on others before you are ready to face your own need of transformation?

Okay, now let's talk to God about it. "Create in me a pure heart, O God,

and renew a steadfast spirit within me" (PS 51:10). Amen.

Dane Tyner is founder and director of Home Improvement Ministry, a Christian family counseling service in Tulsa, OK.  The ministry website is http://www.forhim.org.

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» left by Teresa Ortiz
 3 years 337 days ago.
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...and this is why we have grace. Can I print this out and pass it on? Well done...again. Teresa
» left by 3 years 337 days ago.
Thanks Teresa. Thankfully, we have a very patient God who is rich in mercy. Yes, you may print and pass it on. Dane
» left by Susan Thom
 3 years 335 days ago.
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hi dane, nicely written article. i would have liked to have read more. very interesting questions, and thought provoking. thank you for sharing, best regards, sue thom
» left by 3 years 334 days ago.
Thanks, Susan. I'm encouraged to know that you were provoked to wholesome thinking.
» left by straight talk
 3 years 330 days ago.
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I thought it was a thought provoking article. Perhaps a little more intro would have helped ease the reader into it?
» left by 3 years 330 days ago.
Robert, Thanks for reading and offering constructive feedback. Glad I provoked your thinking. That says I accomplished my basic goal in posting this piece.
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