Ask yourself these questions in 2025

Over 10 years ago, Donald Whitney wrote Ten Questions to Ask at the Start of a New Year.¹ Those questions were so impactful that the article has been run on numerous websites, and many have made copies of the questions to keep in their Bibles, journals or devices for regular reflection.

Here they are:

1. What’s one thing you can do this year to increase your enjoyment of God?

2. What’s the most humanly impossible thing you will ask God to do this year?

3. What’s the single most important thing you could do to improve the quality of your family life?

4. In which spiritual discipline do you most want to make progress this year, and what will you do about it?

5. What is the single biggest time-waster in your life, and what will you do about it this year?

6. What is the most helpful new way you could strengthen your church?

7. For whose salvation will you pray most fervently this year?

8. What’s the most important way you will, by God’s grace, try to make this year different from last year?

9. What one thing could you do to improve your prayer life this year?

10. What single thing that you plan to do this year will matter most in ten years? In eternity?

1. 10 Questions to Ask at the Start of a New Year or On Your Birthday, by Donald Whitney (Center for Biblical Spirituality: December 30, 2014) The article also gives you 21 additional questions to help you “Consider your ways.”