David Powlison’s list of questions (plus few of my own) in Seeing With New Eyes are good for a test on our lives to help us identify idols.

What do I worry about most?
What, if I failed or lost it, would cause me to feel that I did not even want to live?
What do I use to comfort myself when things go bad or get difficult?
What do I do to cope? What are my release valves? What do I do to feel better?
What preoccupies me? What do I daydream about?
What makes me feel the most self-worth? Of what am I the proudest? For what do I want to be known?
What do I lead with in conversations?
Early on what do I want to make sure that people know about me?
What prayer, unanswered, would make me seriously think about turning away from God?
What do I really want and expect out of life? What would really make me happy?
What is my hope for the future?
What do you blog, tweet or post the most about on social networks?
What are your close friends top focus, and what do you talk about often when you meet them?
What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think about “success”?
What would you do with the money, if you won a million dollar lottery?

Jonah 2:8 “Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs.”

15 Questions to Identify Your Idols