A Spiritual Medical

May 5, 2020
A Spiritual Medical

Here are a few tests to check your spiritual health :

  1. Do you read God's word less than you once did?
  2. Do you pray less than you once did?
  3. Is your desire to meet with the Lord's people for worship less than it once was?
  4. Is your concern for the lost and zeal to serve the Lord less than it once was?
  5. Are you less holy, less obedient to God than you once were?
  6. Do you love the Lord Jesus less than you once did?

If one or more of your answers is yes, it's a sign of spiritual poor health, spiritual decline. When blood tests or x-rays are not good, we want to know, is there a cure? Is there a cure for spiritual decay, backsliding? Yes, there is.

We need to repent, which was Christ's command to believers in churches in Asia Minor who had spiritually decayed. We should be grieved by our behaviour after all Christ has done for us and confess to God that we have inexcusably spiritually declined. We need to return to God seeking forgiveness in Christ for our spiritual decay. We need to turn from anyone or anything we can that has caused our decline and return wholeheartedly to God. The good news from God is that if we do this, "I will heal their backslidings and love them freely" (Hosea 14 v 4).