| The two verses in our reading today are a challenge to deeper consecration and they do tell us how we can discover God's will for our lives. 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? | 
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