FAITH CAPSULE: Live life with a good conscience before God.
Galatians 5
One with a good conscience is evident in action.
God sees action.
The bible mentions, “…For the Lord is the God of knowledge; And by Him, actions are weighed.” (1 Samuel 2:3)
What is your conscience like before God?
A good conscience before God is living obediently before God, such as a command for all to love.
1 John 4:8 says it all, “He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.”
Do you love God?
Do you love all?
How can one love God that has never seen when is yet to love all that is seeing or seen?
Bible records, “For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” (Galatians 5:14)
Among the reasons for the commandment of God for all is to love from a GOOD CONSCIENCE.
1Timothy 1:5-6 records, “Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith, from which some, having strayed, have turned aside to idle talk.”
Having a good conscience is having God in conscience.
Do you carry the word of God in your heart?
Do you have a good conscience in all your ways before God?
Having love from a good conscience comes with action and is not hidden from God.
Having a good conscience is the sense of doing right but not doing wrong before God.
It is a good conscience that governs thoughts and actions.
Conscience will convict man to turn man from what is not right before God.
One with no conscience will live life in empty pride consciously or unconsciously, the evidence of no love as commanded by God.
Conscience is responsible for conviction in life.
The Pharisees demonstrated the lack of good conscience when they approached Jesus for judgment over a woman caught in the act of adultery.
Jesus ignored the request for a judgment by the Pharisees. (John 8:7)
The need for good conscience by Pharisees was evident as Jesus responds and the people reacts, “Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one…” (John 8:9)
All should strive for good conscience and not become a lack of love before God.
In Acts 24:16, Paul testifies to having need conscience, “This being so, I myself always strive to have a conscience without offense toward God and men.”
Think of it, if the Apostle Paul can identify the need to strive for good conscience before God, why is it that one denying self not to have a good conscience before God?
Prayer for today: Ask God for His Spirit that you consistently live life in the consciousness of doing right before Him.