Are you having trouble discerning God’s will? The issue of finding out God’s will (beyond the obvious moral and spiritual guidelines given in Scripture) is a matter of confusion for many people. Should I accept this job? Should I buy this house? Should I do this or that? Let me say firstly that God hasn’t made us to be robots. In many things God is happy for you to do what seems best to you. The choice is yours. But there are many cases where we need to discern the will of God. In order to discern this then, the key is not to focus initially upon the decision you have to make but upon the decision maker, you. Are you in a good state to discern God’s will and make good decisions? Is your ‘spiritual navigational equipment’ intact? If your mind is continually being infiltrated by worldly ambitions and negative influences do not expect to have any clarity in your decision making. But don’t think that you can only discern God’s will if you have attained an advanced degree of holiness. It is the momentum of change in your life that matters. Are you allowing the Holy Spirit to transform you day by day? The degree of your progress in this is less important than the momentum of your growth. If you are indeed growing by the working of the Holy Spirit within you then you will be able to discern God’s will because he is forming that very will in your innermost being.
What decisions are you facing? Think about what needs to change within before you try and change your outward circumstances. How can you co-operate with God’s spirit to see this change?
Read Romans 12:2 again
