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Scripture of the Month~

"So I strive always to keep my conscience clear before God and man." (Acts 24:16)





Thought for the Month~


These lines from Dr. Arnot give an interesting description of a person's conscience:
"A person may be saved from death by seeing the reflection of danger in a mirror,
when the danger itself could not be directly seen. The executioner with his/her
weapon is stealthily approaching through a corridor of the castle to the spot where
the devoted invalid reclines. In their musings, the captive has turned their vacant eye
towards a mirror on the wall; and the faithful witness reveals the impending stroke in
time to secure the escape of the victim. It is thus that the mirror in a person's breast
has become in a sense the person?s saviour, by revealing the wrath to come before
its coming. Happy they who take the warning, happy they who turn and live!"

It has been said that person's conscience was given to him/her after the Fall in the
Garden of Eden. Person's desire to know good and evil had been granted. But God, in
His mercy, gave people a means of telling good from evil. That mechanism, which He
placed in our heart, was the conscience.

Don't ignore the promptings of your conscience or let your conscience become
calloused. It's more than a sixth sense. It's beacon whose homing signal is Heaven.

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