Monday, March 7, 2011

The science behind our conscience

Many of us take it for granted, that we still have a conscience that is still sensitive to the sinful tendencies of a sickly condition.
For those who truly trust and obey in Christ, we have an eternal joy, for the records of our debt has been fully cleared once and for all. We can enjoy being able to see the full immensity of our sins.

Sounds crazy. Enjoying the fact that we can see our sins.
It is a beautiful and amazing thing, to be aware of our sinfulness. Because it enables us to be able to respond rightly to it.

So the next question to ask is, why should we need to respond to our sinfulness rightly? Namingly, because we are the creations of a Holy Being. When we respond to our sinfulness rightly - in repentance, we are remembering the relationship that we have with God. We are responding to who God is in our lives and what He has done.

So what has God done to allow us to respond rightly to Him in our sinfulness? He has redeemed our conscience and cleared us of the debts that was recorded against us.

Our conscience is like a record of our sins - past, present and future.
What condemns us, is not the act (Because the act many times can be covered up with a quick-fix solution), but it is the fact that we did whatever we did.

For example, I could have knocked over my friend's laptop , that being the act. But I can easily cover it up by possibly buying a new laptop, I mean why not, and just simply changing everything back to it's original state, he would never notice the difference, problem solved. Wrong.
The fact that I did it, still hasn't changed, no matter what the end result is.

It's the same thing in a relationship. If you start off with the wrong intentions, sinfully, it doesn't matter what the end result is. Yes God can work and He will work in His own way to salvage the situation (even though it may not be in the way you expect it to be), but never for one moment can we live with an attitude - taking for granted that we have our conscience that tells us what is right and wrong.

An our conscience grows proportionately to our knowledge of God in our lives. The more clearly, accurately and personally we know God, the more we will be aware of our sinfulness and hence, being enabled to respond to it.

Let us pray, that our conscience will remain tender, so that we can relate and respond rightly to God in everything that we do and we say and think about.

For the way we live our lives, determines the state of our heart, in our relationship with God.

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