“Keep your conscience clear.” 1 Peter 3:16
Everyone has a conscience which is your inner sense of what is right and wrong in your conduct and motives.
You initially developed your conscience by your parent’s training, schooling, and the influence of friends or mentors. This foundation will lead you astray without the indwelling life of Jesus.
You need the infusion of God to create a new person, take away your old thinking patterns and motives and build a new person with the mind of Christ.
It is impossible to have a clear or godly conscience without the life of the Spirit dwelling inside you. The standards of the world concerning right from wrong are opposed to God so you have to build your conscience on the life of Jesus.
God teaches you what is right and wrong through His Spirit and His Word. You cannot have a clear conscience unless you pray, fill your inner being with the Word, and listen to the voice of God.
You have to be “in Christ” which means you are yoked to His Spirit and living under His authority and guidance.
The problems arrive when you lapse away from Him and live through your natural person who died on the cross with Jesus. This person does not operate with a clear conscience or understand God’s ways.
God has a perfect way of looking at your life and discerning what is good or bad for you. Don’t think about rules with God. Think about your faith in Him to meet your every need!
Hal Hollister Ministry 