Friday, September 16, 2016

Pillars Of A Godly Life (IV)


Memory Verse: "This is why I always try to do what I believe is right before God and man." (Paul in Acts 24:16, ICB)

Scripture Reading: Acts 5:1-11.

Here's the fourth pillar:
  • A Tender Conscience.
Unless you possess a tender conscience, living a godly life would be almost impossible. 

This was the strength of Apostle Paul's character. A tender conscience.

Paul also said to Timothy that there are a set of people who have their conscience seared as with a hot  iron; people whose conscience is dead (see 1 Tim.4:2). These people live practically in sin. And they see it as normal.

How do you know your conscience is alive? You are pricked in your conscience any time you sin. For example, if you touch someone else's money and you lose your peace; if you watch a wrong movie and your heart begins to trouble you; if you have a wrong business deal and experience inner sorrow; if you told a story with perceived exaggeration and your heart troubled you, etcetera. It is because your conscience is tender, alive and awake.

Benefits of a Tender Conscience:
  1. A tender conscience makes the enjoyment of sin impossible.
  2. Forbids the existence of unconfessed sins.
  3. Denies you the power to take God and His word for granted.
  4. You lose the capacity to make any kind of excuse for sin.
Maintaining a tender conscience might not be easy but it is possible.

As I wrap today's devotional up, 3 Things that will help you maintain a tender conscience include:
  1. Confess every known sin immediately. Do it promptly.
  2. Repent and forsake your wrong doings.
  3. Avoid the company of people living with a hardened conscience.
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Ponder Point: Unless you keep a tender conscience, spiritual things will be indistinct to you.

Action Point: Work at keeping a tender conscience that's void of offence.

Prayer Point: O Lord, remove the heart of stone from our lives, gives us a heart of flesh. Make us afraid of every form of evil and careful not to be outwitted by Satan as we are not ignorant of his designs. And give us the happiness which have no fear always, that when we think we stand, we may take heed lest we fall, in Jesus name, Amen.

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