The Examination of the Christian Believer, Part B

TEXT: 2 Corinthians 13:1-5

Socrates once said, "The unexamined life is not worth living."
 
When was the last time you sat down and really took stock of your life? If you are a young person, you are probably thinking in terms of where you would like to be in the future? If you are older, you are probably thinking in terms of what you have accomplished or failed to accomplish in the past. Scripture challenges us to examine our spiritual lives.
 
This examination of ourselves is a very serious matter as it would be a tragedy to pass from this life to the next, assuming that our spiritual life is in order, and then find out on the other side that it is not, and that it is too late to do anything about it. In the classic story, Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan describes such a character named Turn-Away. Turn-Away began his pilgrimage to the Celestial City, but he had refused to look to the Cross for salvation or to have his burden of sin rolled away into the Tomb, yet he still claimed to be a Pilgrim.

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