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Our Conscience
This morning there are the lines of an old song running through my head. One of those lines, though not a verse of Scripture, has a rather poignant message:
“Whatever you do today,
You’ll have to sleep with tonight!”
When Adam sinned by eating the fruit from “the tree of the knowledge of good and evil” (Genesis 2:17), he received a conscience. This conscience, which all of us as descendants of Adam have inherited, pricks at our minds when we do something wrong. Sadly, many believers live in the shadow of a bad conscience a good deal of the time. The Apostle Paul strove to keep a good conscience and could affirm, “Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day” (Acts 23:1).
A good conscience is maintained by keeping close to the Lord and by confessing and judging sin and those things that we have allowed to come between us and the enjoyment of His company. The writer of Hebrews expresses this in asking his brethren, “Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly” (Hebrews 13:18).Don’t let a bad conscience keep you from having a good, peaceful sleep tonight.
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