Audit Your Impression of God Read: Deuteronomy 4 Habit: Self-reflection What does it mean to have an impression of God? The term has two meanings applicable here: describing an idea, feeling or opinion about someone (“I have a good impression of that young man.”) and an effect produced on someone (“She made a profound impression on my life”). What is your impression of God? Before answering, consider the following questions and score each on a scale with 1 being completely insufficient knowledge or engagement and 10 being sufficient knowledge or engagement. By providing an honest assessment you’ll gain a valuable measure of your spiritual formation. Each of these questions is related to a spiritual habit: ▶ Seeing Jesus in Scripture How easily can you “see Jesus” in the Old Testament? ▶ Seeing Jesus in Scripture How would you rate your understanding of typology as it relates to Jesus? ▶ Story and Patterns Are you able to identify and understand the various literary forms of the Bible? ▶ Story and Patterns How well do you know the storyline of God’s Word? ▶ Engaging Scripture How deeply have you engaged with Scripture? ▶ Engaging Scripture How much of the Bible have you actually read? ▶ Meditation How well do you understand the practice of meditating on God’s Word? ▶ Meditation How often in the past have you meditated on God’s Word? ▶ Memorization How much of the Bible have you memorized? ▶ Memorization How much of the Bible’s storyline and chronology have you memorized? As soon as you’ve written down a score for each question, add up your scores and then immediately follow this important next step: Let go of the guilt. The intent of this audit isn’t to make you feel shame for not having spent enough time reading or studying God’s Word. Nor is it useful to compare your own knowledge and engagement with Scripture with that of other Christians. Rather, the purpose of this exercise is to help you... Read more @ http://www.facebook.com/teresa.schultz.author #sundayread #NIV #lifehacks #LifehacksBible #whatareyoureadingrightnow #teresaschultzauthor