50 Days of Wisdom

It's important to fill your heart and mind with the Word of God so that your conscience will properly alert you to soul-damaging dangers. Now remember, the conscience is not in itself the moral code that tells you right from wrong. It's merely a device that reacts to your current moral code by excusing or accusing your behavior. You could describe it as a skylight that lets the outside light in. The outside light is the truth of God, and the conscience is the skylight that lets it in. And you remember Paul said to keep that clean so the light comes in. But we live in a culture that assaults our conscience in two ways. First of all, our society wants to change the moral code. They want to take the Bible and just get rid of it. They don't want the Bible's moral laws; they're too strict, so they let culture invent them. They want the sexual revolution to define the moral codes. They want gay and lesbian groups to invent a new moral code. So now what? Now conscience has a problem because your conscience is not a moral law; your conscience is merely a device that reacts to your moral code. Muslims and Buddhists have a conscience. But they don't know the truth of God, so their conscience is misinformed and can't function properly because the conscience is a human mechanism that reacts to your belief system. So what happens in our society is you invent an erroneous, deceptive, lying, hellish, damning moral system. And now what you've got is misinformation going to the conscience, and it no longer functions to alert you to dangers. In addition to that, we have the psychology world. And what is the goal of modern psychology? The goal of modern psychology is to train people to ignore their conscience. Is your conscience making you feel guilty? That's wrong. You're not a bad person; you're what? You're good. You just lack self-esteem. In fact, you're so much better than you think you are that it's really troublesome, and most of your problems are because you don't know how good you really are. Therefore, when your conscience says you're guilty, that's wrong, so you have to silence your conscience. So, on the one hand, the culture develops an entirely different moral system, and on the other hand, it trains people to ignore their conscience. Both damage the conscience so that it cannot properly function to alert you to danger. So we have the majority of civilization with damaged consciences. And here we are in the midst of this as Christians who have the Word of God, who know the Word of God, with a fully informed and sensitized conscience that tells us what is right, and Scripture instructs us to listen to that conscience. And when the conscience says, "Stop, do what's right," that is a God-given gift that functions properly. So when your conscience starts yelling at you, it's God's gift to you saying, "Stop that; you're hurting your soul." That's why it's so important to keep your conscience highly informed with the Word of God. You know, that's one of the wonderful benefits of being in a church and having been taught and trained in the Word of God. It's wonderful for those of you who know the Word of God and know it soundly and solidly. Why? This is because your conscience, fully informed, serves to prevent you from acting in a manner that could lead to God's judgment. Therefore, it's very important that you reject the psychological lies of those who want to dispossess you of any guilt and make you feel completely exonerated from any guilt of any kind. That is a very, very devastating way to silence a God-given warning system in the souls of men and women. And it's a very effective campaign, believe me. But here we are as Christians with a fully informed and sensitized conscience, and we know enough to listen to it when it speaks. So listen to your conscience; you can trust it if it's built upon the Word of God, and that's the key to self-control. Repent and believe! GTY.org (90-131) - Fundamental Christian Attitudes: Self-Discipline, Part 2

Today's Wisdom

Day: 1053

October 9, 2026

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