WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30
Romans 2:12-16
Romans 2:15

"…their conscience
also bearing witness…"

A SANCTIFIED CONSCIENCE (4)

Our conscience has to be based on a certain standard of morality. We must ensure that that standard is God’s holy standard, the Holy Scripture. Then, we can have a true knowledge of ourselves. In other words, our conscience must be tuned up to God’s holy standard with the convicting, convincing and sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit; otherwise, many will be deceived by their own conscience based on their own beliefs, philosophies and moral standards.

When I share the Gospel with others, telling them their need for the Saviour Jesus Christ because "all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" (Rom 3:23), they usually defend themselves with their own accepted beliefs, philosophies and moral standards. It is so dangerous! One says that sin is only the product of human thinking, i.e. if you think that it is a sin, then it is a sin; if you do not think it is a sin, it is not a sin. This type of ungodly thinking causes many to indulge themselves in sins regardless of God, the Saviour Jesus and God’s judgment! Worldly philosophies teach man to practise positive thinking, i.e. have self-esteem, self-importance and self-goodness. They say, "Your mental and moral life is based on your thinking. If you think that you are good, you are good. Thus, you must think that you are good, you are important, you are able, you are lovely, and you are deserving. You must never think about yourself as bad, stupid, weak, sinful, nothing, unable, etc." It is so dangerous to embrace such worldly mindsets and self-esteem as many will not see their need for the Saviour Jesus Christ!

Even certain so-called Christian books deceptively encourage Christians to think positively about themselves. They say, "You should believe that God always loves you and is able to help you, to heal you, to prosper you, and to bless you, and that you are very precious and important to God, and that God needs you and cannot do His work without you!" And yet their life, worship, service and practices are not according to God’s will and Word! They will be shocked when the Lord comes and rejects them (Matt 7:21-23)!

THOUGHT: My conscience must be tuned to God’s holy Word.
PRAYER: Lord, please tune my conscience to Thy Word.