A pure conscience
"Having faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected, concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck," 1 Timothy 1.19
In order for us to be successful during the progress of our salvation, with the objective of reaching the end with our faith in full swing, it is extremely necessary that we maintain a good conscience every day – which means that we must carefully examine our own actions and feelings.
Conscience is a voice that speaks deep within mankind. It cries out when it’s being tainted by sin. With a bad conscience, your faith becomes inhibited, causing doubt to manifest itself along with insecurity and fear.
Many who were once among us, but today find themselves a part from God, fallen in the world, rejected this voice, because "...the spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron..." 1 Timothy 4.1-2
With a good conscience, we have conviction to enter the "Holy of Holies" (Hebrews 10.19-22), like we also have the conviction to: "... proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound," Isaiah 61.1
A pure conscience is an essential nutrient for maintaining the vital functions of our supernatural faith, therefore let’s do as the Apostle Paul, "I have hope in God, which they themselves also accept, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust. This being so, I myself always strive to have a conscience without offense toward God and men," Acts 24.15-16
Assistants, fight to keep a pure conscience, by sanctifying yourselves every day, in order to: "present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.But shun profane and idle babbling, for they will increase to more ungodliness," 2 Timothy 2.15-16
God bless you.
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