A Clear Conscience
Therefore I do my best always to have
a clear conscience toward God and all people.
Put away from you all bitterness and
wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, and be
kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has
forgiven you.
Like physical pain to our bodies, our
conscience alerts us to spiritual harm. But habitual and unrepentant sin can
numb the conscience. To keep a clear conscience, we need to respond to the pain
of appropriate guilt by confession, and restitution to others.
Like Jesus, we should not grow numb to
God’s painful reminder of sin but allow it to produce in us godly character.
A clear
conscience
is a soft pillow.
Our Daily
Bread –