No one lights a lamp and puts it under the table but puts it on a stand that everyone may see it's light.
The eye, which is the conscience, is the light of the body and when it's clear, your whole life is full of light, but when your conscience is bad, your whole body is full of darkness. Watch out and be careful that the light in you is not darkness.
Here we learn how important it is to always keep our conscience clear. When your conscience is clear, your whole life will be in light, but if you have a bad conscience, your whole life is in darkness. The voice. A prick in your conscience is more serious that the railing accusations against you of a thousand people.
When your conscience tells you what you are doing is wrong, do you silence that voice and assume everything is ok and continue going against your conscience or do you avoid doing what your conscience tells you to do? When your conscience convicts you of something wrong you've done, do you set it right or do you ignore it and justify yourself?
Be watchful that the light in you does not become darkness.
When you keep on silencing the voice of your conscience, you will get deeper and deeper in sin. The sins you could not have committed sometimes back, you'll find yourself doing it without seeing any problem. You can commit sexual immorality and still go on justifying yourself and still think that God is pleased with you; no He is not. He is angry with the wicked everyday. Ps 7:11. Never think that going to church or doing anything for God will make up for your sins which you commit, even a whole lifetime of service to God will never atone for one sin. You have to confess and forsake.
The wicked together with those who forget God and start living in sin will be turned into hell. Ps 9:17.
It all begins with ignoring the warnings of your conscience. If you don't want to backslide and go deeper in sin, learn to keep your conscience clear and never ignore when it pricks you of something wrong you have. Always humble yourself. If there is something you need to restore or someone you need to ask forgiveness from; that should be the very first priority. Always do it in the first opportunity. It's serious.
Paul warns Timothy to keep his conscience clear because some ignored the warnings of their conscience and fall away from the faith and began teaching things contrary to the scripture. 1Tim 1:19.
Paul also says that because he believed there will be a judgement and resurrection of the righteous and the wicked, since he wanted to be among the righteous and not be condemned by God's judgement, he always did his best to keep his conscience clear, lived a life of repentance whenever found something wrong with him as he constantly judged himself rightly so as not to be judged by God. Acts 24:16, 17:30-31, 1Cor 11:31.
Paul also tells us to follow him. Learn to always keep your conscience clear, and never ignore it's warnings or it's promptings.
God will give you more light on yourself every moment and we will be becoming more and more like Christ in our conduct, in our speech, in love, in purity, in faith...
Are you becoming a better person or are you just the way you are an year ago? Have you been seeing things that you need to repent of or change or areas you need to improve and are trying to improve in your spiritual life? If not, you are going the wrong direction.... turn from it into Christ.
Stop justifying yourself and start judging yourself.
A Pharisee invited Jesus to have lunch at his house and Jesus went. Jesus never said that He won't go because the Pharisees were planning to kill him. He knew not everyone and He didn't have any prejudice against them. He was free from all prejudices. Have you gotten rid of your prejudices against a group or community of people saying that they always act in a certain way and whenever you meet and from the group, you've already made up your mind that he is like that or she acts like that even when its your very first time to meet the person.
When you lose something, you are always suspecting someone because you have a prejudice against them. Many times you have found that you had misplaced what you thought had been stolen and seen that you condemned the innocent in your heart. Learn to instead of putting a wrong reason and motive about why someone does something, put a good reason and good motive and you'll be freed from unrest in your heart.
The Pharisee was surprised seeing that Jesus did not wash His hands before dinner and he got disturbed.
Jesus told him that they washed the outside of the plates and cups but inside them was full of greed and wickedness.
They were to clean the inside first so that the outside will be clean also.
Do you get disturbed by little things that have no eternal value and don't get disturbed by things that have eternal value? For example, are always very careful that you wash your hands before meals but you don't get disturbed by a sin in your heart? You are a Pharisee indeed. Are you always very careful that you wear clothes that match but you are not concerned about the mismatch of your private life and public life? You are not disturbed that the impression you give to people is different from the real you inside, but you are disturbed when you wear clothes that don't match; you are a true child of the Pharisees. Change your priorities. Be disturbed by things that have eternal value first of all before getting disturbed by temporal things.
Have your priorities in order.
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