Sunday, August 30, 2009

Conscience helps our holiness

God bless you beloved, our conscience plays a big role in us living in holiness before the Lord. We often suffer as believers because we suffocate our conscience with our reasoning and justification. The Lord uses our conscience to communicate serious internal things to us. every person knows what is right and what is wrong because of the conscience element that the Lord has installed in us. The Bible says in Genesis 20:6 "Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against me..." when our conscience is clear before The Lord we can walk without sinning against Him. We often hear The Lord telling us things that are important and essential to our spiritual walk, but we tend to rationalize it away, the danger is that if we rationalize too much for too long, we can create a calloused conscience or a seared conscience and loose the desire or the need of having a clean conscience before the Lord. Acts 24:16 says "So I strive always to keep my conscience clear before God and man." We must always strive to keep our conscience clear before God and man. It's not going to happen by accident, we have to make an ongoing effort to keep our conscience clear. What if our conscience is not so clear right now, how can we cleanse it (I'm glad you asked) Look what The Lord says in Hebrews 9:14 "How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!" The blood of Jesus cleanses our conscience so that we may serve God, by faith in Jesus sacrifice and the power of his blood we can attain the cleansing we need. Beloved let us strive to keep our conscience clean before The Lord more so now that The Lord is so near, a clean conscience will help us walk in holiness before The Lord, Hebrews 12:14 says "Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.

God Bless you all.