As we consider our need and desire for God’s favor, these are some tough questions for personal spiritual evaluation:

• Do you hold the Word of God in a place of honor in your life?
• Do you respond obediently to its words?
• Do you live by its truth?
• Is it a pattern in your life to regularly sit at the God’s table and be nourished by His words?
• Do you receive the conviction of God’s words with gladness and quickly respond without question?
• Do you hold in high regard and holy reverence the presence of Christ working in your life and in the church?
• Do you come into His presence to worship with adoration, fear and awe?
• Do you have order in your life?
• Do you have order in your home?
• Do you honor godly order and leadership in the church?
• Does your life reflect the purity and holiness of Jesus Christ?
• Do you forgive those who have wronged you? Do you love and pray for your enemies?
• Are your conversations holy?
• Do you seek to edify and encourage those around you?
• Do your words and actions draw people to Christ?
• Do you care about lost and hurting people?
• Is your heart broken by the things that break the heart of God?

If any of these questions prompt reflection and bring conviction into our lives, let us respond with humility and brokenness of heart. God never despises and broken and contrite heart. On the contrary, it is the key that opens the door to the increase of His presence and favor in our lives.

“If you seek Me, you will find Me. If you search for Me with all of your heart, I will be found by you.”  – Jeremiah 29:13-14a