明白神的旨意
罗马书十二章1至2节
1所以弟兄们，我以神的慈悲劝你们，将身体献上，当作活祭，是圣洁的，是神所喜悦的；你们如此事奉，乃是理所当然的。
2不要效法这个世界，只要心意更新而变化，叫你们察验何为神的善良、纯全、可喜悦的旨意。
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我们如果按照第1节的教导而行，就会得着第2节下半句的结果。保罗之所以作出这个劝勉，乃是基于神对我们显出了无限慈爱和怜悯。神既已为我们作成这一切，我们便应该将神最想要的东西奉献给祂──就是我们自己。
旧约的献祭，都是献上被宰的祭牲；但保罗在这里却呼吁我们要「献上活祭」。
许多时候，我们会将金钱奉献给神，或是在教会中服侍；然而，神最想要的，是要我们献上自己、我们对祂的爱、与祂相交，并凡事顺从祂。箴言二十三章26节作出这样的呼吁：「我儿，要将你的心归我。」父亲对儿子作出这个呼吁，很可能是因为儿子与他根本没有亲密的相交关系。神对祂的许多儿女，是否也有同感呢？
圣灵期望在信徒心中工作，并要借着信徒的身体来完成神对全世界的计划。圣灵希望掌管信徒的心思意念，因为我们的心思正主宰了我们的生活态度和生活方式。
我们未必会效法世界或追求世俗的快乐，不过，我们事奉神的心态，却可能是出于勉强或骄傲。当我们愿意献上自己，当作活祭奉献给神，圣灵就要在我们里面作工，完完全全地改变我们。
而且，随着我们把自己放在这位慈爱的父神手中，我们就会在不知不觉间，发现神奇妙地显明祂对我们一生的计划。
这岂不值得我们献上自己吗？
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?