| GOD'S WILL - Conforming To His Purpose |
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A mature Christian seeks God's will and asks for God's wisdom when he/she is facing a major decision. Believers must pray about decisions - especially life decisions such as "Where shall I go to college?""Should I marry this man/woman?""Should I bring my ailing parent into my home to live?" Such decisions have serious consequences, and they deserve the prayerful seeking of God's perfect wisdom. But knowing God's will does not happen solely in prayer. It also requires a commitment to knowing his Word.
The Bible teaches that realizing (or proving) God's will is the result of habitually conforming your thinking and behaviour to God's Word over a lifetime. As a Christian Man/Woman reads the Bible day by day, his/her mind is renewed with a new way of thinking about life. Worldly ideas, attitudes and prejudices are replaced by thoughts that conform to God's ways. This process takes time, and there are no shortcuts. The transformation is never complete until death.
The Christian who has ongoing fellowship with the Lord through His Word comes to decisions equipped with a biblically informed way of thinking. Knowing God's will at major decision points is much easier if you are seeking God's will every day in Bible reading and prayer.
2:23 I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast [now] made known unto us the king's matter. 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service. 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. 1:9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: 1:9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard [it], do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; |
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