Step 7 Questions: A Humility Worksheet for Recovery
These Step 7 questions help you move from praying the Seventh Step prayer to actually living it. There are five, and they go in order: understand humility, see what pride cost you, choose one defect, plan its opposite, and check how it went. Answer them in writing, then talk them over with your sponsor.
Take them one at a time. You don’t need to finish in one sitting. Short, honest answers beat long, polished ones.
1. What does humility mean to you, and what doesn’t it mean?
Write down what you used to think humility was. Many people picture someone who lets everyone walk on them, or who never says anything good about themselves. Then write down what it might really be: seeing yourself at your true size and depending on God.
Guidance: If your answer sounds like self-hatred, look again. Humility is honest about the good too.
2. When has pride cost you the most?
Pick two or three moments. A job you lost because you couldn’t take correction. A relationship that ended because you wouldn’t say sorry. A time you refused help and things got worse.
Guidance: Pride doesn’t always look loud. Sulking, people-pleasing and refusing to ask for anything are often pride too.
3. Which defect do you want to start with?
Look at your Step 4 inventory and what you admitted in Step 5. Choose one defect. Pick one that shows up often and hurts people near you. It doesn’t have to be the biggest.
Guidance: Starting small is not cheating. It is how habits change.
4. What would the opposite of that defect look like tomorrow, at work or at home?
Be specific. “Be more patient” is too vague. “Let my wife finish her sentence before I answer” is something you can actually do. “Tell my boss the real reason the report is late” is something you can actually do.
Guidance: Write down one opposite action for home and one for work.
5. Did you catch yourself this week? What did you do?
Come back to this one at the end of the week. When did the defect show up? Did you notice in time? Did you practice the opposite, or did you fall back into the old way?
Guidance: Both answers are useful. If you fell back, that is not failure. You pray the Seventh Step prayer again and try again tomorrow.
Before you call Step 7 done
Two checks are asked before the step is marked complete:
- Have you prayed the Seventh Step prayer and meant it?
- Are you practicing the opposite of your defects each day?
If both are yes, you are ready for Step 8. If not, keep going. There is no rush.
A verse to keep beside the worksheet
“When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.”
Pride brought shame. Humility brings wisdom, the kind that comes from seeing yourself clearly. Keep that in mind as you answer.
For the reading and the full picture of the step, see the Step 7 page. For more Scripture, see the Step 7 Bible verses.
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