Questions for Self-examination (a needed exercise in our day.)

Useful Questions for Self-examination adapted from Joseph Alleine

Ps. 4:4 Commune with your hearts upon your beds.

Duties

Was I sleeping when I should have been praying?  Ps.5:3

Have my prayers been full of wandering thoughts? Jer 12:2

Have I neglected or read God's Word to not profit?Deut. 17:19

Have I digested the last sermon I heard? Have I repeated it  and prayed over it? Ps.1:2

Have I denied myself in any way this day for God? Luke 9:23

Have I overslept in a world full of needs? Col.4:5

Have I been selective about whose company I keep, including characters in the movies I watch and books I read? Prov.13:20

Have I neglected some duty or sinned against my parents or siblings? Eph.6:1-3

Sin

Do I lightly brush off my sins? Ps.38:4

Do I mourn for the sins of the land? Ez.9:4

Do I refrain from doing what I know or fear to be sin?  Ps.119:101,104

Heart

Have I prayed thoughout the day? Neh.2:4,5

Has God been far from my thoughts? Ps.16:8

Have I disciplined my thoughts? Ps.119:113

Have I nurtured pride or wrong passions?  James 4:5-7

Tongue

Have I bridled my tongue? James 1:26

Have I spoke evil of no man? Titus 3:2

Has the law of the Lord been in my mouth as I sat in my house, went by the way, was lying down and rising up? Deut.6:6,7

When I have talked to people, have I said something of God and left some good savor behind? Ep.4:29

Table

Did I sit down with a higher purpose than a pig at the trough (i.e.to fill my stomach); did I eat and drink for the glory of God? 

1 Cor.10:31

Did I eat more than I needed to? 2 Peter 1:6

Did I participate in the dinner conversation with no mention of God?  Luke 7:36ff; 19:1ff

Was I merely going through the motions when I asked God's blessing and gave thanks for the food? Col.3:17

Calling

Did I work hard?1 Cor.7:17

Did I cheat anyone? 1Thes.4:6

Did I lie? Ep.4:25

Did I make promises and not keep them? Ps.15:4