Should i always follow my conscience

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Tom Hill says:. February 6, at am. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. If you enjoy our work, please consider making a donation. Adam McIntosh. Andrew Isker. Bill Smith. By neglecting their conscience, people lose the ability to cope with life. Marital problems. I take these risks to our happiness and health as evidence that God designed us to obey our conscience.

But is the only purpose of this design to have personal benefits? Obeying a healthy conscience is part of a building a thriving life that strengthens your faith, creates stronger bonds with people you love, and improves your productivity at work. While there is that risk that you could be mistaken, and take the wrong stand, the Bible and the Holy Spirit provide guard rails and warning signs to guide our conscience. The Word and the Spirit work to keep is out of the ditches on either side of the road, and keep our moral GPS calibrated to true north.

A thriving life is also about looking out for the needs and interests of others. Jesus Christ put His eternal destiny on the line for the sake of humanity. His selfless, self-sacrificing love is His legacy. The direction of human history has often changed on the shoulders of men and women who chose to obey their conscience for the greater good, and at the selfless sacrifice of their own lives.

The greatest heroes of conscience are those who dream of a better life for those who come after them. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters.

How strong of a role does your conscience play in your faith, relationships or work? Is it helping you thrive? Please comment below. Click To Tweet. Source: Bogg T. Ann Behav Med. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

All rights reserved. I help Christian leaders apply the ways and words of Jesus to: - Overcome limiting beliefs, habits, and traits. This is exactly what Peter had to do— rather quickly!

God gave Peter a vision of certain kinds of animals that the Old Testament forbade Jews to eat. Thousands had converted under his preaching, and he had even suffered for the gospel. But because Christ himself was commanding him, he had to calibrate his conscience so that he would have the faith confidence to accept food and people that he was previously not able to accept. Calibrate your conscience by educating it with truth.

As best you can, try to discern why you hold certain convictions. Is it based on truth, especially the truth God has revealed in Scripture? A regular diet of Scripture will strengthen a weak conscience or restrain an overactive one. Conversely, error, human wisdom, and wrong moral influences filling the mind will corrupt or cripple the conscience. In other words, the conscience functions like a skylight, not a light bulb. It lets light into the soul; it does not produce its own.

Its effectiveness is determined by the amount of pure light we expose it to, and by how clean we keep it. In order to choose God, I have to eat meat on that day. Nonetheless, conscience is not independent of others or of the Church.

It is a gift, but it can be wrong. And in the words of G. What we want is a religion that is right where we are wrong. Father Schmitz is director of youth and young adult ministry for the Diocese of Duluth and chaplain of the Newman Center at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Reach him at fathermikeschmitz gmail. Category : Ask Father Mike. Gratitude — in the growing, giving and goodbye.

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