The Will of God

Romans 12:1-2 (NASB95)
1 Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

I've read those verses dozens of times. I memorized them in grade school and again in high school. And yet God just pointed out something new to me.

The definition of God's will is right there. I had never noticed it defined so succinctly.

"...the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect."

I knew that "perfect" likely meant "complete" in the Greek. Here's what I found:

Téleios can be used in a relative or absolute sense (Matt. 5:48; 19:21). God’s perfection is absolute; man’s is relative. The téleios is one who has attained moral maturity, the goal for which he was intended, namely, to be a man obedient in Christ.

Synonym: ártios (739), fitted, complete, perfect; plé̄rēs (4134), complete, full; mestós (3324), full; ámemptos (273), irreproachable, blameless; áptaistos (679), not stumbling, without transgression; holóklēros (3648), entire, whole. Téleios is not to be confused with anamártētos (361), without sin or sinless.

Zodhiates, Spiros: The Complete Word Study Dictionary : New Testament. electronic ed. Chattanooga, TN : AMG Publishers, 2000, c1992, c1993, S. G5046

And so...I'm using the logical part of my self now (fighting emotion):
Who would not want to be exactly in line with God's will, no matter how seemingly attractive the alternatives ...?

God's will: good, acceptable, complete.