'We need to possess
a conscience void of offense, not in the sense that it is better than before or
that much evil has been done away but that it is without offense and confident
before God. This ought to be the normal condition of our conscience.
If we prostrate
ourselves before it and allow it to reprove us: if we offer ourselves entirely
to the Lord and are willing to perform all His purposes: then our confidence
shall increase until it is possible for us to regard our conscience as void of
offense.
We dare to tell God
that now we have nothing left which is concealed from Him. So far as we are
concerned we know of nothing between us and Him.
In walking by the
spirit we should never permit the tiniest offense to stir up our conscience.
Whatever it condemns must be confessed immediately, cleansed by the precious
blood and forsaken, so that no trace be left behind. Each day we should seek to
have a good conscience, because no matter how short a time conscience may be
offended it renders great harm to the spirit'
The Spiritual Man - by Watchman Nee
"I have lived
before God in all good conscience up to this day” (Acts 23.1)
It's not a joke- our
conscience. It's a very real indicator of us spiritually. If our conscience is
NOT clear we are not living in the Spirit.
Allowing the Spirit to convict us is so crucial. If we know something is
sinful and it doesn't make our conscience take notice then our spirit is not
alive in us. Satan would love for us to be deceived and he'll stop at nothing
to do just that. If Satan can get our conscience to be quiet while we sin
relentlessly, then he's won us. If our conscience is NOT alive in us revealing
any and all things against God's love then we are not God's.
Truly the 'tiniest
offense' that isn't repented of can fester within our spirit destroying us.
Every single day we
have to live for Christ and all that entails and it isn't ignoring Him and
ignoring the Spirit.
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