Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide

Not too many years ago when we were tempted to do something that we knew was not good for us, a small voice in our heads would tell us to stay away or to go another direction.  Whether we had a relationship with Jesus or not we would pause to evaluate our position on the temptation.  We learned life conscience lessons from our family, church, and parents as to what was right and what was wrong.  It was also instilled in us through famous movies that taught us at a young age about the right and wrong in all of us.   In the 1940 Disney animated move "Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket sang a song to Pinocchio that said,  "Take the strait and narrow path;  and if you start to slide -  give a little whistle, give a little whistle and always let your conscience be your guide.

Famous Movie clip    Let your conscience be your guide

Then somewhere along the way all that conscience stuff got blurred.  

What does that mean today, "Let your conscience be your guide"?

We may speak the words but then when an opportunity to do something wrong, daring, exciting, or adventurous we jump at the chance and quickly dismiss our conscience which is telling us it is not good for us.  We rationalize that we won't get caught or it's just a little thing.

Society has become so desensitized to wrong that our minds are numbed to the difference.  Video games that make violent death exciting leads to taking the lives of children and any other person, not for religious expressions, but from being BORED.  The excitement of the game has faded and they need another kick of excitement so they find ways to kill with no conscience of what they are doing.  Things we do or watch we call entertainment and it does not seem to strike our conscience.  Just because something does not bother you does not mean it is good for you.  Ask yourself, am you being entertained by sin?

For those who have gotten caught in this area, realize that God's laws NEVER change.  We have the choice to do right or to do wrong.  In today's society the conscience is so dulled that we never let it guide us back to the Lord

Just as Adam and Eve sinned against God, we do wrong by not listening to the conscience of our soul but soon realize that there are consequences to our actions against God.  That moves on our heart after we are caught or we feel the consequences of our actions.   Too late.

Getting our act together by developing a relationship with the giver of grace will help you to once again have a conscience that is alive and using the Lord to be our guide.  Stop and talk to the one who wants that relationship with you and give you the grace we do not deserve.

Helps me avoid the consequences.