finding your idols
Dec 3rd, 2009 by Sade
saya menemukan spiritual diagnostic questions di bawah ini berguna untuk menolong saya menemukan berhala-berhala saya.
Apa mimpi terburuk saya? Apa yang paling saya khawatirkan?
What is my greatest nightmare? What do I worry about most?
Jika saya gagal atau kehilangan sesuatu, apa yang membuat saya merasa tak ingin hidup lagi? Apa yang membuat saya melanjutkan hidup?
What, if I failed or lost it, would cause me to feel that I did not even want to live? What keeps me going?
Apa yang saya andalkan, yang menghibur saya ketika hal-hal buruk atau sulit terjadi?
What do I rely on or comfort myself with when things go bad or get difficult?
Apa yang paling mudah saya pikirkan? Ke manakah perginya pikiran saya ketika saya seorang diri, santai, tak bekerja? Apa yang memenuhi pikiran saya?
What do I think most easily about? What does my mind go to when I am free? What preoccupies me?
Jika doa saya tak terkabul, apa yang membuat saya dengan serius berpikir untuk berpaling dari Allah?
What unanswered prayer would make me seriously think about turning away from God?
Apa yang membuat saya merasa amat bernilai atau berharga? Apa yang paling saya banggakan?
What makes me feel the most self-worth? What am I the proudest of?
Apa yang sungguh-sungguh saya inginkan dan harapkan dari kehidupan? Apa yang benar-benar membuat saya bahagia?
What do I really want and expect out of life? What would really make me happy?
- Timothy J. Keller, and Redeemer Presbyterian Church 2005
I like those questions, pastor Agus… thank you those really help me in introspecting myself. I am aware of that the answer for all the questions should be God. The further question would be what should people do about it if they realize that it is not only God as the answer. for all those questions.
hi chris, thanks for your comment. that’s a very good question. to answer your question, i suggest that you listen to my sermon ‘the fruit of the spirit’: http://www.irect.org/khotbah/E2009-11-22.wma. basically, we can’t just identify our idols, we should also replace them with our lord, jesus christ. the longer we gaze him, the greater our desire to be like him and adore him.