Romans 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.

Yesterday I ended the devotional His Will with this pointed question: Is that seeking God’s will or satisfying our own conscience? My point was in trying to determine God’s will and our attention to that will. How much we pay attention to His will varies within us as either good, acceptable or perfect. This is about the condition of conscience with respect to His will.

This transformation of mind is a conscious decision. Our ability to prove the will of God in respect to our conscience is a reflection of our heart condition. It is because God is One, has One will, has One objective, has One plan. It is foundational to Who God is and why He does everything. We on the other hand come to terms with the His will according to our understanding. God’s will for all of us is the same and is identified in the first commandment.

Matthew 22:37-38 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.

God created us to be loved and to love (the second commandment). God is love. Return to the issues of proving God’s will in respect to conscience in Romans 12:2, all you have to do is substitute will with love to gain insight as to that proof.

Good love, acceptable love, perfect love are all subjective to our understanding of our performance of that love which is the basis of conscience.

How well you love determines how deep you are in God’s will, good, acceptable or perfect.

Judges 6:39 And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.

Do you seek God’s will? I think that is a fair question. If you love God, you will want to please God. If you want to please God you would want to do His will. How do you know the will of God? Do you use Gideon’s method of proving God’s will? Do you set a test in your heart and mind to say that if you see a sign, then you know God’s will? Surely that cannot be a bad method because the apostles cast lots to choose Judas’ successor!

Acts 1:24-26 And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen, That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place. And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

If it was good enough for the apostles, why isn’t it good enough for us? Then if that be true, tell me how these eleven decided that a twelfth apostle had to be chosen? If Jesus called those twelve, what told them they knew the Lord’s will for just one more apostle, and how to know His will in this matter?

It seems that much of our seeking God’s will in this life follows this same course of action. We decide something needs to happen, and then set about to determine God’s will in a matter we set in motion. Is that seeking God’s will or satisfying our own conscience?