Spiritual Checklist 

These questions are written by James Nisbet [1676 – 1756] from his Spiritual Checklist – Table 14.1. Seek to ask these questions to your soul, prayerfully and humbly:

1. Am I leveling all the actions of my life to the glory of God…….? 
2. Am I ever-resisting sin [in] my heart, and bearing witness against it in my life…?
3. Am I ever searching if I be savingly convinced of my lost state and condition…?
4. Am I fully and sweetly persuaded that Jesus Christ is my only… remedy?
5. Am I ever-striving in the use of all the means of grace… to embrace… [Christ]?
6. Am I willing to have him for my Lord and Lawgiver, as well as Lord and Savior?
7. Am I ever seeking to be a debtor to free grace…? 
8. Am I ever seeking to get atheism and ignorance rooted out, and saving illumination flowing from Christ’s prophetic office, implanted in my heart and soul? Am I ever seeking [delivery] from the condemning power of sin by virtue of Christ’s priestly office? Am I ever seeking [delivery] from the power and tyranny of sin. by virtue of Christ’s kingly office?
9. Am I ever studying the spirituality of the law as a schoolmaster leading me to Christ, who is the end thereof to all who believe in him? 
10. Am I ever taking the law for a rule to square my life conversation…? 
11. Am I ever thirsting after the pardon of… sin. and (Christ’s] intercession… therein?
12. Am I ever hating all sin, and prizing holiness at all times? 
13. Am I greatly grieved when iniquities prevail against me? And do I run to the blood of Christ for daily washing? 
14. Am I greatly grieved when the Lord withholds… [his] face? 
15. Am I ever seeking to have a present Lord with me at gospel ordinances, that he may be glorified, and my salvation promoted? 
16. Am I studying, in the Lord’s strength, ever to be a martyr for [God’s] truth…? 
17. Am I ever searching Scripture what I am to believe concerning God. and what I am to practice as a real Christian? 
18. Am I ever seeking of the Lord… to be strong in faith…  and get all my doubts cleared by the light of his Word and help of his Spirit? 
19. Am I ever seeking (the Lord’s help to get all my fears prevented? 
20. Am I ever taking heed lest I fall, remembering, blessed is he that feareth always? 
21. Am I ever endeavoring to giorify the Lord… [by using the means of grace when he is hiding himself as when he is, in some measure, present? 
22. Am I striving to take the beam out of mine own eye rather than censure others? 
23. Am I ever hating and keeping at a distance from the vicious practice and sinful ways of the wicked, but pitying and loving their persons? 
24. Am I ever exercising a holy indignation against myself for all my sinful miscarriages, and a holy jealousy over myself for all times to come? 
25. Am I ever seeking to be brought out and from under a covenant of works. and to be bought to and established in grace’s freest and well-ordered covenant? 
26. Am I ever preparing for death, judgment, and eternity, and… [reminding myself] that I must give an exact account of all my thoughts. words. and actions? 
27. Am I ever seeking to have my mind sanctified and brought to my lot? 
28. Am I ever seeking… the Lord’s [help] to comply… and to submit to his… will? 
29. Am I ever acknowledging the Lord in the whole of my ways? 
30. Am I ever setting the Lord before me and living under… [an] impression of him? 
31. Am I ever seeking that the cause of the Lord’s people, and the condition of his work and interest, may ever lie near my heart…?” 

To God be the glory!