Conscience #14

"The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. "But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness! "No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other...

And He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts...

...I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the Law and in the Prophets. "I have hope in God... "This being so, I myself always strive to have a conscience without offense toward God and men.

Matthew 6:22-24, Luke 16:15, Acts 24:14-16, www.solascriptura.com

Father, the world presents a great array of sinful opportunities. You have permitted Satan to tempt man in these times in bold and public ways. Help us not fall victim to "joining in" simply because everyone seems to be willfully sinning, more and more. Help us, as you did Joseph, to flee from sinful opportunities as a person truly escaping the clutches of sin.

Our flesh is disposed to sin but Your Spirit in us trumps sin if we will but call up on You. Teach us to call out, constantly, for Your Holiness in us. Give us a clear conscience before You about the events of this day, knowing that yesterday's sin, once forgiven, is as separate from You as the east is from the west, never to be remembered against us again. In Jesus Holy name, we pray, amen.



Bruce Caldwell