I'm not talking about spirit like our soul or something like that of course. Spirit what I mean here is the spirit more to motivate. Yes, what I mean here is more about how if suddenly, we realize that we have no same spirit as same as before we were. Like for example (even though I cant say it is a really absolute barometer for all people): have field service report with do-re-mi-fa-sol only per month (and we feel embarrassed to see our paper report even by our self , giving comment in the meeting only once in a month or even less, prepare the watchtower and Bible Study only in 10 minutes (as long as your pages look colourful), feel more difficult to start the conversation when we go from house to house almost as same as when we were still new publisher few years ago, and also missed/skipped few new magazines or publications, and when we feel our Holy Bible become more difficult to be opened (coz the pages are too stick to each other) and we are missing the Weekly Bible reading the way too far from the program schedule in our meeting. Then would be good if we are starting seriously think serious and do the examination. Evaluate what is happening now. Because Evil & his Ghosts are keep walking around to find their prey, usually the one who starting less spirit in the spiritual activity.
And from 2 Cor 13: 5, the apostle Paul wrote that we need to keep always do evaluation about our own condition. Indeed we can also think like why don't we just let the Elder people to do it for us? And the answer is: Not! Because we first need to be realized our sadly condition and then we can just let His Holy Spirit help us by first be initiative to ask it from Him. These kind of questions also will help us more:
- Do we still have a fire in the spirit?
- Do we still pray to Jehovah?
- Is our pray really show that we still count on Him and trying to do His will?
- Do we still pray for showing our appreciate for our ministry?
- How about our study habit? How much time that we spend for really thinking about what we have studied?
- How much our participation during our meeting?
With asking those questions we would be able to see which part from ourself / which division from our spiritual activity that needs to be repaired. Next we will see how can we fix for each division. :)
