Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide?
You no doubt have heard the expression: Let your conscience be your guide. However, can your conscience always be trusted as a reliable guide of what God is telling you?
Indeed, the conscience is a vehicle by which God tells us something of Himself, but it is only as good as the information that has been programmed into it. It does tell us that justice is real, that there is an ultimate Judge before whom we must stand. Just as our conscience is continually judging our attitudes and actions, so someday our lives will be judged before God.
However, we should be very careful not to extrapolate too far from here; our conscience is not necessarily always accurate. All clocks give evidence to the existence of time; yet not all clocks accurately tell what time it is. The accuracy depends on whether they have been set properly and whether or not their mechanisms are in proper working order. In other words, not all clocks can take a licking and keep on ticking. So too our conscience. If abused, it will produce inaccurate judgments.
How about your conscience? Is it set properly, according to the law of God?
Something to think about from “The Kingdom Perspective”.
For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves, in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them, on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus.
~Romans 2:14-16 NASB
