Boredom and Purpose are the two themes we're talking about this week that were related.

Last time on Monday we looked at God's purpose in our boredom, basically that God plans for human beings to be frustrated

with their experience in this world until they realize that they were made for God.

It's a really helpful reminder and today we continue talking about purpose as we seek to find and follow God's will for our lives.

We're on the topic because tomorrow in the Navigator's Bible reading plan that we're reading together, we launch into Philippians and study one of the key essential texts for learning to discern God's will.

And I'm talking about Philippians chapter 1 verse 9 and 10.

Read those verses especially carefully because in them we learn

that following God's will requires that we approve

what is excellent. In other words, that we

taste test our way to discerning God's will.

He intends that we have a faculty of palate

for tasting what is true and what is pleasing. The question today is from a

podcast listener named Tenyell. She asks about another text but

Philippians 1 versus 9 to 10 is going to factor in here. Here's the question.

Pastor John, Romans 12.2 says, do not be conformed to this world but be transformed

by the renewal of your mind that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and

acceptable and perfect.

Pester John, what does Paul mean when he says by testing?

That is a really, really good question. I love it because it means she's really

paying attention. She's looking at the book and

she cares about the words and oh I love people who care about the words of

scripture and that phrase it she's obviously reading from the ES.S.V. I think because it's translated differently in different ways.

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