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How to Use This Page
Read each question slowly. Answer the one that is honest, not the one that is comfortable. Do not negotiate. Do not skip. Discomfort in the presence of an honest mirror is not a problem with the mirror — it is a report from the face. The questions are not about whether your theology is right. They are about whether your heart, left to itself, has ever loved God the way it loves what it actually loves. The diagnostic only works if you let it run all twelve.
The Twelve Questions
1.When was the last time you spontaneously wanted to pray — not from need, not from guilt, not from schedule — but because you simply wanted to be with God?"My soul thirsts for God, for the living God." — Psalm 42:2
2.Can you scroll a screen for an hour without effort, but find ten minutes of prayer or Scripture exhausting?"Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." — Matthew 6:21
3.When you hear that God is absolutely sovereign — that He does not merely allow but decrees — what is your first instinct?"Why, you foolish person, who are you to talk back to God?" — Romans 9:20
4.Do you have to be convinced to read Scripture?"How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!" — Psalm 119:103
5.Can you weep at a movie but sit unmoved through a sermon about the cross?"Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves." — Luke 23:28
6.When a person you know is more holy than you — more prayerful, more careful, more joyful in God — what is your most honest reaction?"Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light." — John 3:19
7.Do you prefer sermons that entertain to sermons that convict?"They will not put up with sound doctrine… their itching ears want to hear." — 2 Timothy 4:3
8.When you sin deliberately, does your first instinct afterward feel more like loss, or more like management?"Godly sorrow brings repentance… worldly sorrow brings death." — 2 Corinthians 7:10
9.Have you ever read a promise of God and thought, quietly, "that sounds too good — surely there is a catch I need to earn past"?"And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works." — Romans 11:6
10.When you consider that God saves specifically whom He wills — and passes over others — what does your chest do?"Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" — Genesis 18:25
11.If God told you today that you would never feel His presence again for the rest of your life but would still be saved, how would you respond?"Though the fig tree does not bud… yet I will rejoice in the Lord." — Habakkuk 3:17-18
12.Be honest. If you had to bet your eternity on the sentence "I chose God with my own unaided will," would you bet it without flinching?"You did not choose me, but I chose you." — John 15:16
What the Mirror Cannot Do
The mirror does not save. The mirror only diagnoses. The man bleeding on the side of the road did not heal himself by inspecting his wounds; he healed because a stranger from another nation poured oil into them. The questions above are oil-pouring questions only in the sense that they expose where the oil must go. They do not heal. They cannot. A corpse can be measured a thousand ways and still be a corpse. The cure is a Person, and the Person comes by His own initiative or He does not come at all.
The Catch
If the mirror just did its work — if you saw something honest you have spent a lifetime not naming — do not despair, and do not turn back to the mirror for help. The mirror is not your friend; it is the diagnostic instrument that handed your file to the Physician. Read the file aloud and put the file down. Look up. The corpse you saw cannot rise on its own. The Lord who raised Lazarus does not need it to. The very fact that the questions made you flinch is a witness in your favor: a heart at perfect peace with its idolatries does not flinch. The flinch is the Spirit, not the flesh, and the Spirit does not flinch any soul He does not intend to finish saving.
For the long-form walk through the diagnosis the mirror is performing, read "Are we really that bad?" For the verses that drown every escape, Scripture Tsunami. For the question every question above is secretly asking, where did your faith come from? More handouts at printables; deeper walks at best reads.
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