Knowing the Will of God

That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows. Self-seeking will slip away. Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves. (AA, pg 84)
 
What used to be the hunch or the occasional inspiration gradually becomes a working part of the mind. Being still inexperienced and having just made conscious contact with God, it is not probable that we are going to be inspired at all times. We might pay for this presumption in all sorts of absurd actions and ideas. Nevertheless, we find that our thinking will, as time passes, be more and more on the plane of inspiration. We come to rely upon it. (AA, pg 87)

If we want to know anything, let us look to our new life, which is Jesus Christ:

"3For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory." (Colossians 3: 3-4)

Before we can know what to do, we need to know who we are and what we have:

"3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:" (Ephesians 1:3)

We have this new standing because of what Jesus did for us at the Cross:

"And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; 2Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: 3Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. 4But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 6And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:"" (Ephesians 2: 1-6)

The whole passage in the second chapter of Ephesians is chock full of powerful truths. Paul reveals who we are in Christ, but he starts out by outlining who we were -- dead in our trespasses. He further outlines that we were in bondage to enemy spirits, giving in to the demands of our flesh, our empty bodies which were not yet quicked by the Spirit of God living in us.

Yet once we received the Spirit of adoption (Romans 8: 15), God the Father then places us in Christ, and Christ is seated at the right hand of God the Father. The highest place of honor, at God's right hand, is reserved for Christ Jesus, and He is the first born of many brethren, which includes every believer in the Body of Christ.

By His death on the Cross, Jesus Christ cut a New Covenant for everyone to enter into:

"10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
11And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. 12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." (Hebrews 8: 10-12)

Because we receive (in fact, keep receiving) God's righteousness and grace (Romans 5:17), then we can allow God's grace and truth to flow in our lives because we are no longer fixated on fixing ourselves.

"My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise." (Psalm 57: 7)

We receive a new heart, and a new spirit because of what Jesus Christ has done for us.

Through the Holy Spirit, we receive Christ living in us:

"27To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory" (Colossians 1: 27)

But Christ is not passively living in us:

"28Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: 29Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily." (Colossians 1: 27-29) 

Christ is working in us!

To the Philippians, Paul states the same case once again:

"12Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. 13For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure." (Philippians 2: 12-13)

To the Corinthians, Paul writes:

"10But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." (1 Corinthians 15: 10)

To the Galatians, Paul writes:

"20I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 21I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain." (Galatians 2: 20-21)

AA's God is just a figment of Bill Wilson's narcisstic self-righteousness. We need more than a  mere hunch or a spiritual brainstorm. We need Wisdom, and Christ gives us this wisdom:

"30But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: 31That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. (1 Corinthians 1: 30)

The Holy Spirit within us also gives us all knowledge:

"20But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.

Followed by

"27But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him."

As we grow in grace and knowledge of the Lord (2 Peter 3: 18), the peace of Christ will act us an umpire within our hearts (Colossians 3: 15). Because we receive the forgiveness of sins and the new heart and spirit from God the Father, we can trust that whatever he prompts in our hearts to do, it is in line with God's will.