Pip: Welcome to another pass through Preacher’s Point, where the questions are eternal and the answers, it turns out, require some homework.

Mara: preacherspoint tackles one of the most searched questions in Christian life this week — how to actually know what God wants you to do, and what the Bible specifically prescribes as the method for getting there.

Pip: Let’s start with that question of discerning God’s will.

Knowing God’s Will — Evidence Required

Mara: The post opens by broadening the frame: God’s will isn’t limited to a vocation or a calling to ministry — it extends to where you live, shop, eat, and who you encounter along the way.

Pip: Romans 12:1-2 is the anchor, and the post sets it up carefully before quoting it directly: “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”

Mara: The word that does the most work there is “prove.” The post draws a direct comparison to a courtroom standard — you cannot walk in and say “I really believe Joe Smith did it.” Feeling something is true isn’t evidence. The same logic applies to discerning God’s will.

Pip: So the post lays out two concrete steps from that passage. First: present your body as a living sacrifice. The argument is straightforward — your body is what you act with, so if God can’t have that, He can’t use you.

Mara: And the post connects this to a practical consequence. It notes that 18 of the 28 New Testament uses of the word “fornication” are direct commands or warnings to Christians specifically — not to outsiders. The point being that dismissing God’s instructions about the body makes the first step of proving His will impossible.

Pip: The second step is the mind: be transformed, not conformed. And here the post makes a distinction worth sitting with — observing nature can tell you something about God’s power, but it won’t tell you how He thinks.

Mara: The illustration is a woman dressed entirely in purple, driving a purple car. You can infer her favorite color. You still know nothing about her inner life. Scripture, the post argues, is where you learn what makes God happy, angry, or sad — and that knowledge is what lets you distinguish your own feelings from the movement of the Holy Spirit.

Pip: Which means the goal isn’t a personalized divine memo — it’s building enough fluency in how God thinks to apply it to your specific circumstances.

Mara: And that’s the closing challenge the post leaves open: do you want to hope you get it right, or do you want to prove it?

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Pip: Evidence over feeling. That’s a harder standard than most people apply to their grocery list, let alone their life’s direction.

Mara: Next time we’ll see what other territory the site moves into — but the thread of living deliberately runs through all of it.