Examine Yourself

 

2Co 13:5  Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves.

Gal 6:3-4  For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.  But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

John 15:8  Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

2Pe 3:18  But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

James 1:22-24  But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.  For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:  For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

Deu 28:9  The LORD will establish you as a people holy to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in his ways.

Col 1:10  so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.

 

Examine yourself…

Are you growing? Are you walking daily with God or standing still? Are you applying God’s Word to your life or is it in one ear and out the other? Are you closer to God today than you were yesterday?

In looking up those verses, I found this one…  2Ch 12:14  And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD.

King Rehoboam did not prepare his heart to seek God… and he did evil. We don’t grow in truth by accident, purposely seek God and you will find Him… or don’t and do evil in the sight of God.