“2025 | Mid-Year Spiritual Checkup”

Wednesday, July 02, 2025

We’ve just passed the halfway point in the year, so I think it’s time for a spiritual check-up for all of us. Here are a few questions to consider to gauge your own pursuit of the kingdom of God:

• To what or whom have you given the bulk of your time this year? To what or whom have you given your mental energy this year? To what or whom have you given charity this year?
• Who have you taught this year? Who have you corrected in a spirit of gentleness? Who have you grown close with? To whom have you shown hospitality? Who have you encouraged? Who have you served?
• In what ways have you become more whole (or more balanced [cf. Lk. 2:52]) this year?
• How well have you achieved the spiritual goals that you made at the beginning of this year?
• What can you do to maximize your spiritual pursuits through the remainder of 2025?

These aren’t meant to be guilt-trip questions: they’re just for honest self-assessment. Maybe you’re having the best year of spiritual growth that you’ve ever experienced. Maybe you realize that you’re drifting away from God, either antagonistically or apathetically. Maybe you’re struggling against some great suffering or discouragement. Maybe you’re just lukewarmly ‘going with the flow’ of life and not being really pursuing spiritual things at all. Maybe you're doing so well that you're fostering great spiritual growth in others.

I don’t know how you are with God right now. But you can know that. And God does know that. I just think that mid-year is a good time to take stock of our faith, pray about it, and decide what’s truly best to do next.

I love you, and I prayed for you today. God bless you, my brothers and sisters.

- Dan Lankford, minister

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