Today's Verse

comes from Romans 12
“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.”

It's such a mystery to me what God wills. Elusive as it is, it's on my mind a lot -- if I can only know what God wants of me, how He wants me to live my life, then I could carry it out and please Him with it. Or at least that's how my thoughts seemed to guide me. It's good to think about, but does there come a point where we spend too much effort trying to think about it, and not enough actually doing it?

There was this inspirational poster hanging in my 8th grade English classroom that read

Thoughts become words, words become actions, actions become habits, habits become your character, and your character becomes your destiny.

If this is the case, which my logic consents that it is,
and if we can better know God's will by the renewing of our mind
(and if it can be rightfully supposed that our thoughts begin in our mind)
then does that mean the first step to better understanding God's will might be
to change the way we think?

If this is the case, what are we to think about?

In my mind instantly clicked the recollection of a verse marked, in part, by the words 'think about such things.' A little Biblegateway.com - searching and we have:

"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things."
- Philippians 4:8

So then, we ought to think about what is
true
noble
right
pure
lovely
admirable
excellent &
praiseworthy

in such a way that our mind will be transformed as a result of that thought (I think God will take care of this)
and we might have a better idea of what God is all about.