To know!

“Be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good, acceptable and perfect will of God” Romans 12:2

The Bible doesn’t tell you which car to drive or buy. It doesn’t tell you whether to rent or purchase a home. It doesn’t tell you where to go on holiday, which phone plan to choose, or which brand of orange juice to drink. Every day you and I face thousands of decisions that aren’t explicitly addressed in the pages of the Bible.

So what do we do if we genuinely want to obey the will of God?This is where scripture leads us away from rule-hunting and into transformation. Paul doesn’t say, “you will know God’s will by finding a verse for every choice.” He says, “be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good, acceptable and perfect will of God”.

Notice the order. Renewal comes before discernment. The will of God isn’t mainly accessed through a checklist but through a changed way of thinking.

As the teaching of the Bible reshapes our minds, we begin to assess life differently. We learn how to eat and drink, how to use money, which lifestyles to choose, which friendships to cultivate, and which conversations to step away from. These decisions aren’t written out line by line in the text, yet they’re informed by it. Over time, our minds begin to think with the mind of Christ. We start weighing things the way he would weigh them, valuing what he values, resisting what he would resist.

That’s how decisions about cars, houses, work, mission, and rest can genuinely flow from the revealed will of God. Not because the Bible names every option, but because it reshapes the person doing the choosing.

The challenge, then, is practical and searching. Are we merely looking for permissions and prohibitions, or are we allowing scripture to do its deeper work of renewing our minds? Because only a renewed mind can faithfully navigate the ten thousand decisions that obedience requires.

Then comes the senses being exercised. Renewal is internal transformation, the what follows is trained perception.

Renewal gives you new instincts. Use trains those instincts until they become reliable.

Kay Alli