God wants us to differentiate between truth and error as well as to choose between what is good and what is best. Satan always tries to frustrate God’s plan and will try to reveal something nice to us way before God shows us His best. As a result we jump at the first and miss the latter.
Those who have the sensitivity to make good choice would have recognized the Holy Spirit’s warning and have waited. The believer would have prayed and trusted God until he is clearly receiving His assurance to act. God will give us spiritual discernment if we ask Him. God’s will is not always logical according to human reasoning.
Colossians 1:9-12
For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light.
In order to be spiritually sensitive to God’s will, we need to know that God has a personal interest in our decisions and we can be spiritually sensitive to His will when we are making decisions.
We must not allow our own thoughts influence our own decisions. We may be rational but we not able to see the true nature of many situations and events. We may be deceived by external appearances and our pride hinders us to seek godly wisdom.
We have insight on the working of the Holy Spirit when we are dependent on God’s wisdom. The Holy Spirit is able to tell us the biblical meaning, give us spiritual gifts and help us with spiritual sensitivity in making decisions. With the help of the Holy Spirit we are linked to God’s mind and be aware of God’s will for our lives.
In order to have this ability to be sensitive to God’s will in our lives, we need to understand God’s Word. From His Word we can come to live accordingly to God’s will and pick up God’s wisdom for any situation from His words
1 Corinthians 2:10-14
... but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no-one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
When we seek God’s will daily and make an effort to understand Him, we will develop our ability to be spiritually sensitive to His will. We must devote our time faithfully to study His Word and subject ourselves to the teaching of the Holy Spirit. In 1 Samuel 17 : 37 – 39 we learnt that David exercised spiritual discernment throughout his life. David finally ascended the throne only after God’s plan was finally revealed to him, but not without making mistakes. By living out what we learn and study the cost of making mistakes we will grow in spiritual discernment.
Hebrews 5:12-14
In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God's word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.
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