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We always seem to be asking God to show us His will. Or better yet, to guide us in the way He wants us to go. We pray these prayers continually when we want to make decisions, decide on career goals, who to marry and a host of other things. I don’t know about your experience but there have been times in my life when I didn’t feel like I got an answer (or maybe the answer I wanted to get). In those times, the question became, God, where are you? Why aren’t you giving me a definitive answer. I found myself reading Romans 12:2 recently. Let’s look at it here:
“ Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”
We come to know God’s will when we allow our minds to be transformed. So I can’t know Gods will while I concurrently lie, steal, gossip, treat people badly, practice unforgiveness, be abusive, selfish, unkind, use fighting words, be manipulative, controlling, self serving and the list goes on.
To know God’s will I must give up those patterns of behavior that I have learned and practiced. To know God’s will I have to practice the character of God; the character of love found in 1 Corinthians 13 -
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. ... Love never ends.
To know Gods will we must be patient, kind, not envious or boastful, not arrogant or rude, not self serving, irritable or resentful, and truthful AT ALL TIMES.
