FAITH CAPSULE: One having a good conscience is having God in conscience 

1Timothy 1

It matters and counts to have a good conscience before God.
Have a good conscience before God, living obediently, as commanded for all to love.
The commandment of God for all is to love one other. 
Without the love for God, it is not possible to love others indeed and in truth!
1 John 4:8 records, “He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.”
Do you love God?
Do you love one other?
Galatians 5:14 records, “For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 
Among the reasons for the commandment of God for all man is to love from a GOOD CONSCIENCE. 
1Timothy 1:5-6 states, “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.” 
One having a good conscience is having God in conscience, and it counts before God to carry the presence of God in the life journey.
It is the will of God for all to have the purpose of the commandment of having a good conscience.
Do you have a good conscience?
Having love from a good conscience will be striving for good conscience to live life for the glory of God.
Having a good conscience is doing right but not doing wrong before God. 
It is a good conscience that governs thoughts and actions.
Conscience is what convicts one to turn from what is not right doing. 
One with no conscience will live life in empty pride, the evidence of no love as commanded by God. 
Conscience convicts not to miss the presence of God.
The act of Pharisees approached Jesus for judgment over a woman caught in adultery, but Jesus ignored the request of the Pharisees. (John 8:7) 
The need for good conscience by the Pharisees was evident in the response of Jesus, “Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one…” (John 8:9) 
Strive for good conscience and not become a victim of a lack of love before God.
Paul, in his defense before Felix, made it known in his statement that good conscience is to strive, “This being so, I myself always strive to have a conscience without offense toward God and men.” (Acts 24:16) 
Having a conscience without offense toward God and man is a good conscience. 
With understanding and knowledge, learn, strive to have a good conscience, to love according to the purpose of the command of God.
Consciously examine your conscience, be of good conscience which is pleasing to God. 
Misplacing the purpose of the command displaces and not experiencing God in a challenge.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you with a mind full of good conscience.