明白神的旨意
羅馬書十二章1至2節
1所以弟兄們，我以神的慈悲勸你們，將身體獻上，當作活祭，是聖潔的，是神所喜悅的；你們如此事奉，乃是理所當然的。
2不要效法這個世界，只要心意更新而變化，叫你們察驗何為神的善良、純全、可喜悅的旨意。
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我們如果按照第1節的教導而行，就會得著第2節下半句的結果。保羅之所以作出這個勸勉，乃是基於神對我們顯出了無限慈愛和憐憫。神既已為我們作成這一切，我們便應該將神最想要的東西奉獻給祂──就是我們自己。
舊約的獻祭，都是獻上被宰的祭牲；但保羅在這裡卻呼籲我們要「獻上活祭」。
許多時候，我們會將金錢奉獻給神，或是在教會中服侍；然而，神最想要的，是要我們獻上自己、我們對祂的愛、與祂相交，並凡事順從祂。箴言二十三章26節作出這樣的呼籲：「我兒，要將你的心歸我。」父親對兒子作出這個呼籲，很可能是因爲兒子與他根本沒有親密的相交關係。神對祂的許多兒女，是否也有同感呢？
聖靈期望在信徒心中工作，並要藉著信徒的身體來完成神對全世界的計劃。聖靈希望掌管信徒的心思意念，因為我們的心思正主宰了我們的生活態度和生活方式。
我們未必會效法世界或追求世俗的快樂，不過，我們事奉神的心態，卻可能是出於勉強或驕傲。當我們願意獻上自己，當作活祭奉獻給神，聖靈就要在我們裡面作工，完完全全地改變我們。
而且，隨著我們把自己放在這位慈愛的父神手中，我們就會在不知不覺間，發現神奇妙地顯明祂對我們一生的計劃。
這豈不值得我們獻上自己嗎？
FINDING GOD'S WILL
Romans 12: 1-2
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Message
Where do we begin? The last part of verse 2 tells us the result of doing what we are asked to do in verse 1. Paul made a warm and loving appeal based on God's attitude of love and mercy towards us. If God has done all this for us then we should give God what He wants from us most of all - ourselves.
Paul said, “A living sacrifice”. The Old Testament sacrifices required the death of the victim.
Many times we offer God our money or we offer Him our service in the church or elsewhere. But what He wants most of all is us, our love, our fellowship, and our obedience. Proverbs 23:26 pleads “My son, give me your heart”. There the father was speaking to his son who may not have been in real fellowship with him. Does God often feel the same way about many of His children?
The Holy Spirit wants to work in and through the believer's body in His plan to reach the world. He wants to control the believer's mind. It is the mind which largely directs our attitude and our life style.
Even though we may not go along with the world and its “pleasures,” yet we may be unloving and proud of what we are doing or not doing. The work of the Holy Spirit is to transform every part of us when we yield ourselves as living sacrifices to God.
Moreover, as we place ourselves in the hands of our loving heavenly Father, He will quietly and beautifully reveal His secret plans for our lives.
That would be worthwhile, wouldn't it?