13 Questions to Diagnose Your Idolatries

Here are 13 questions, adapted from an old Puritan sermon, to help us identify the idols of our hearts. I found this on John Piper’s ministry website, Desiring God :

1. What do you most highly value?
2. What do you think about by default?
3. What is your highest goal?
4. To what or whom are you most committed?
5. Who or what do you love the most?
6. Who or what do you trust or depend upon the most?
7. Who or what do you fear the most?
8. Who or what do you hope in and hope for most?
9. Who or what do you desire the most? Or, what desire makes you most angry or makes you despair when it is not satisfied?
10. Who or what do you most delight in or hold as your greatest joy and treasure?
11. Who or what captures your greatest zeal?
12. To whom or for what are you most thankful?
13. For whom or what great purpose do you work?

I have copied and pasted this list into my MacJournal, and I intend to answer these questions and continue to answer them periodically, so I can examine myself honestly and make corrections where necessary.
I hope that you will do the same. 
This is not a fun exercise. But it is necessary to know where our sinful tendencies, weaknesses and vulnerabilities lie. Satan knows them and will use this knowledge against us. We will also be unfaithful to God, and unfruitful for God, unless we are diligent to make Him our First Love and Chief Joy.