GOD’S PERFECT AND PLEASING WILL
BREAD
1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God–this is your spiritual act of worship. 2 Do not conform any longer 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.
Romans 12:1-2 (NIV)
BUTTER
“We judge things by their present appearance; but the Lord sees them in their consequences. If we could do the same we would be perfectly of His mind; but since we can’t, it is an unspeakable mercy that He will manage for us, whether we are pleased with His management or not; and it is regarded as one of His heaviest judgments when He gives any person up to the way of their own hearts, and to walk according to their own wisdom.” John Newton
HEART SAVOR
• I am not to conform to the world rather I am to be transformed by the Word. Then will I be able to test and approve what God’s perfect and pleasing will is.
• God sees the end from the beginning. I see but a “poor reflection as in a mirror”. Therefore, His management of my life is an unspeakable mercy – He always has my best interest at heart.
• It is the heaviest judgment when God gives me over to walk according to the folly of my own wisdom.
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