Listening to the Conscience
Listening to the Conscience
Along with our good nature, we also have a conscience (2:15). The conscience is a wonderful entity, and we should listen to it. Although med ical doctors cannot locate it, no one can deny that we possess it. Our conscience protests con tinually. If you offend your parents, your con science will trouble you for three nights. Every husband seeking to divorce his wife will also be convicted by his conscience. All men have a conscience. In the normal Christian life we must all take care of our conscience in a suitable way.
Caring for the Proper Reasonings
In addition to our nature and our conscience, we have the reasonings in our mind (2:15). Some times these reasonings accuse and condemn, and other times they excuse and justify.
Often, as we set out to do a certain thing, we experience a conflict in our reasonings, with some reasonings saying, "Yes, that's right," and others saying, "No, that's wrong." We have all experienced this. We need to take care of the reasonings within us.
We have seen the five items in the way of re striction: knowing God by His creation, holding