The Believer’s Conscience

||Rhema for the Week||

“I tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit,”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭9‬:‭1‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Conscience is defined as one’s moral sense of right and wrong that guides his behavior. Our lifestyles and characters are forged out of our definition for right and wrong. No matter how well-meaning your advice is, they are of less value if the conscience of the individual remains same. The conscience also serves as a moral discipline, it condemns and makes you unease when you do something wrong. In other words, the worst kind of person is one whose conscience is broken and does not see any wrong in the wrongs they do (I Timothy 4:2).

There’s disaster each time men are left to define morals individually—as they say, “your right may not be my right”—but that’s a fallacy. For morals to be effective, they have to be definite and objective. That is to say, the consciences of men must be reprogrammed to meet the standard where right and wrong are defined according to the standard of Christ, the perfect God-man.
The Holy Spirit comes to abide in us when we come to Christ. The totality of His work in us is to reprogram our conscience to be standard, that we will think, behave, and live as Christ lived. Our rights and wrongs become that of Christ and our conscience judges us when we move to the wrong path.

The Holy Spirit guides the believer through his conscience. The believer does not only change his actions and reactions to life, his very core is transformed to have a different operating system. In the absence of anyone, the believer’s conscience judges him when he falters. Sometimes even in ignorance of the written word, the conscience of a believer directs him to live in alignment to God. When a believer finds himself in continuous sin without any judgment from his conscience, he should re-examine himself, he is most definitely not yet a Christian. The mark of a Christian is not necessarily perfection but that inner prompting when you fall and the eagerness to rise again in righteousness.