Romans 12:1-6
1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. 2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—His good, pleasing, and perfect will. 3 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you. 4 Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, 5 so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. 6 We have different gifts, according to the grace given us.
1所以弟兄們、我以神的慈悲勸你們、將身體獻上、當作活祭、是聖潔的、是神所喜悅的．你們如此事奉、乃是理所當然的。2不要效法這個世界．只要心意更新而變化、叫你們察驗何為神的善良、純全可喜悅的旨意。3我憑著所賜我的恩、對你們各人說、不要看自己過於所當看的．要照著神所分給各人信心的大小、看得合乎中道。4正如我們一個身子上有好些肢體、肢體也不都是一樣的用處。5我們這許多人、在基督裡成為一身、互相聯絡作肢體、也是如此。6按我們所得的恩賜、各有不同．或說豫言、就當照著信心的程度說豫言．
- 神的旨意是good, pleasing and perfect。這是我所知道的，但當因某事件要尋求神心意時，往往將此拋諸腦後，懼怕神的心意不是我的心意，用己意來成就或促成，讓這金句常在我心裡，在我的生命裡，成為我一生的座佑銘。
- 神的旨意不是要我們要讀甚麼課程，嫁甚麼人，找甚麼工作，祂的旨意在聖經裡是非常簡單的：1)行善以堵住糊塗無知人的口(彼前2:15) ，2)在何環境中都存感恩的心，3)成為聖潔，遠避淫行(帖前4:3)。若我們能遵行這些，相信在任何事上都能明白祂的旨意。
- 英文聖經比較易明：Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind。當被這世界的一切洪流所吞沒時，最緊要知道自己的心思意念仍是更新的，這是說在主裡更新，主的話語，向主的禱告所更新變化的，那麼就不會走向世界，遠離神了。
- 「合乎中道」，這包括看自己和看別人。知道自己的限制，弱點，但又不是貶低自己的價值。對別人要寬容，要求不能過高，但亦要相信他們有與自己一樣或甚至高過自己的能力。
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