Found

I think a good indicator of your spiritual walk is your prayer life and frequency of genuine repentance. You know you are spiritually dying when your prayer life is dry. Tim Keller says "there are three kinds of people: a business associate you don't really like, a friend you enjoy doing things with, and someone you are in love with and who is in love with you. Your conversations with the business associate will be quite goal-oriented. You won't be interested in chitchat. With your friend you may open your heart about some of the problems you are having. But with your lover you will sense a strong impulse to speak about what you find beautiful about him or her." It doesn't matter whether you are the most rebellious non-Christian or the most disciplined Christian. If your prayer life sucks, then you are equally lost. It's ironic because the most disciplined Christian can pray multiple times a day, and still be lost. Their prayers may be filled with the same recitation of wants and desires, with little or no exaltation of the Lord. And this increases depending on the circumstances of their situations.

With Christ-exalting prayer comes genuine repentance. It's more than just repenting the things we have done wrong. It's also repenting the reasons we ever did anything right. Sin is dangerous in that "doing good" can also be very bad. Being legalistic and trying to earn your salvation is very bad. Thus, "we must learn how to repent of the sin under all our other sins and under all our righteousness, the sin of seeking to be our own Savior and Lord."

So do you feel like you're lost? I feel lost all the time in my Christian walk. "How can you tell if he is working on you now? If you begin to sense your lostness and find yourself wanting to escape it, you should realize that that desire is not something you could have generated on your own. Such a process requires Help, and if it is happening it is a good indication that he is even now at your side."

Basically, we are all lost in our sin. But we are truly lucky to have God who is actively pursuing us. Only through Christ and the sanctification of the Holy Spirit, we are found.

-Simon