"The Conscience"

It is hard for some to accept the life work and forgiveness of Jesus. Their conscience is blaring at them telling them how worthless and wrong they are. They punish themselves and when the opportunity arises, they punish themselves in the eyes of another. "I'm a no good, worthless person." That's what their own conscience has concluded about themselves. That's the way a God given conscience is suppose to work (Rom. 2:14-15).

The way a conscience works and is suppose to work is off of a basis of an understanding of God. Without grasping and listening to the voice of the Lord, a person will continually beat themselves up for their past failures. They just don't reach out and take hold of the gift offered by God through Jesus. Instead, they stand at a distance, weighed down in heart and their conscience screaming, "You're no good!" You see, people know when they have violated a standard but they don't know enough about God or trust God to return back to a solid state of being before Him. To many, the dying of Jesus is just words, not a reality!

Another word for all this is called 'self-pity'. We allow our sins and failures to dominate us and wallow in those sins and failures. There is something missing because God knows each of our failures and has offered as His free gift His Son as our substitute no matter how bad or deep we have traveled into sin. God knows about all our sinning even better than we and calls us to Himself through Jesus. God will make certain the blood of Christ stands in our place so our conscience can be cleared (Heb. 9:14).

No matter how loudly your conscience screams, pause and take a close look at the offering of God. He's willing, wanting and desiring us. In fact, it thrills God to forgive when we take hold of Jesus. IT THRILLS GOD! Isn't that what Jesus was teaching in the prodigal son (Luke 15)? We can't be done with a nagging conscience until we are willing to be done with sin and accept the free gift of God for what we have done. It's called peace of mind and can only be found in Christ!!!