So I strive always to keep my conscience clear before GOD and man. Acts 24:16
Can it be said that our conscience is a measuring instrument within us that indicates what is good and what is not? Yes, but only to a certain extent!
A master builder accused of slack workmanship on a building project retorted: I have a clear conscience. Yet his assertion did not in any way alter the verdict of the judge, who answered, Your conscience is clearly different from mine.
Our conscience is the moral sense of what is right or wrong; it is part of our essential nature like our understanding and our will. It is an inner admonishing voice. But it is neither absolute nor unfailingly reliable. It needs rules to go by, just as a ship's captain needs a compass on the high seas.
Our compass is The BIBLE, The written WORD of The Living GOD. GOD is of purer eyes than to behold evil. Habakkuk 1:13. And the BIBLE shows us what HE regards as sin. However, it also gives us the remedy through the atoning work of JESUS CHRIST on the cross. For all who are justified through faith in JESUS CHRIST, there is therefore now no condemnation as its said in Romans 8:1. So our conscience is a kind of sixth sense. If it is supported by The WORD Of GOD, it enables the believer to judge everything in GOD's light: all his deeds, thoughts and innermost motives.
But be careful! Someone rightly stated, CONSCIENCE IS LIKE A WATCH DOG: IF THE SAME PERSON PASSES BY IT CONSTANTLY, IT NO LONGER BARKS!
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