Teach Us to Number Our Days Good, Acceptable and Perfect Will

Teach Us to Number Our Days

Good, Acceptable and Perfect Will

As we become transformed,

we will learn how to go beyond

the good and acceptable job

and fulfill the perfect will of God!

Many Christians have struggled with Romans 12:2.

The struggle comes from understanding that God is perfect;

so how could He have a will that is anything less than perfect?

Let there be no doubt God’s will, or you could say,

His desire, purpose, choice, decree is always perfect.

We must keep in mind Romans 12

is talking about the transformed life;

the person whose mind has been renovated

from a worldly view point - to a Godly view point.

This person now uses their physical body

to serve spiritual purposes.

A life where Spiritual Gifts

are used to accomplish life’s purposes.

This person is one who meditates on the Lord

and His Word day and night.

Examining everything we are about to do

and the things that we are doing.

We are testing and approving each thing in our lives

as to how God thinks about it.

Psalms 1 says that this person

will prosper in whatever he does.

I make it a practice not to get out of bed in the morning

without meditating on my day

and giving God the opportunity to adjust my thoughts.

This process helps me keep His will on my mind all day long.

This is prayer - but I still spent time in prayer after I get up.

The point of God’s good, acceptable and perfect will is focused on us.

Because of God’s grace,

He accepts from us things less than perfect.

As we serve Him,

we should become very observant

of what God wants us to do.

How observant are we?

Someone told me a story the other day

about someone who came to her for prayer.

This person prayed for her which was good;

but she felt like she should talk to her

about her expectation for God to meet her need.

This would have been God’s “perfect will.”

 

You see, we please God when we serve Him,

but is our spiritual sensitivity and discernment

developed to do a better job?

   

All of us have thrown something together and said it was good;

 but if we would have given it more time and thought,

it could have been perfect.

Romans 12:2 challenges us

to not only do a good or acceptable job,

but a perfect job.

Scripture Reading

Romans 12:2 NKJV

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.

Psalm 1:1-3 NIV

Blessed is the man

who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked

or stand in the way of sinners

or sit in the seat of mockers.

2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD,

and on his law he meditates day and night.

3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water,

which yields its fruit in season

and whose leaf does not wither.

Whatever he does prospers.