1. When you grow bolder with sin, or with temptations to sin, than you were in your more watchful state- then be sure something is wrong.
2. When you make a small matter of those sins and infirmities which once seemed grievous to you and almost intolerable.
3. When you settle down to a course of religion that gives you but little labor, and leave out the hard and costly part.
4. When your God and Saviour grows a little strange to you, and your religion consists in conversing with men and their books and not with God and His Book.
5. When you delight more in hearing and talking, than in secret prayer and the Word.
6. When you use the means of grace more as a matter of duty, than as food in which your soul delights.
7. When you regard too much the eye of man, and too little the eye of God.
8. When you grow hot and eager about some disputed point, or in forwarding the interests of some party of Christians, more than about those matters which concern the great cause of Christ.
9. When you grow harsh and bitter towards those who differ from you, instead of feeling tenderly towards all who love Christ.
10. When you make light of preparing for the Lord’s day and the Lord’s table, and think more of outward ordinances than you do of heart work.
11. When the hopes of Heaven and the love of God do not interest you, but you are thirsting after some worldly enjoyment and grow eager for it.
12. When the world grows sweeter to you, and death and eternity are distasteful subjects.
“Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls …” (Jeremiah 6: 16).
“Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong” (1 Corinthians 16:13).