Title

Beware of a Seared Conscience

Scripture
This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, ‘I have done no wickedness.’
(Proverbs 30:20)
Devotional
A continuous lascivious lifestyle leads to a seared conscience. Once the conscience is hardened to sin, it is no longer a valuable measure of right and wrong. Therefore, we must look to the Word of the Lord as our ultimate source of authority. A self-acquitted sinner remains guilty before a holy God.
When we fall under conviction, we must not harden our hearts and minds against the source of that conviction. If it feels wrong, most likely it is. If it cannot be done by faith, then it should not be done at all. We are not to be condemned by the good that we do; however, if we fall under the condemnation of the Holy Spirit, we are to yield to that conviction. “Today if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as when they provoked Me.”(1)
Let us make sure that we do not go the way of an adulterous woman. Let us flee from every sin that so easily besets us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us. (2)

(1) Hebrews 3:15, (2) Hebrews 12:1
Text For The Day
Proverbs 30:20: This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, “I have done no wickedness.”
Thought For The Day
“The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: By a change of life or by a change of conscience.”  Leo Tolstoy, (1828–1910), Writer, moralist, and mystic, author of War and Peace .
 
Questions To Ponder
Morning Study Guide
Defining:  “Conscience”: Inward knowledge, self-awareness of right and wrong, moral precepts, sometimes it proves to be “Con” “Science.”
 
Referencing: “She does not ponder the path of life; her ways are unstable, she does not know it,” Proverbs 5:6 NAS.
 
Applying: Listen to the inclinations of your conscience, seek its advice. Heed it as long as it is parallel to the Word of God.