Daily Devotional

What is your conscience? Is it really an angel and a demon sitting beside you telling you what you must and must not do? Webster defines the conscience as the "faculty, power or principle within us, which decides in the lawfulness and unlawfulness of our own actions and affections, and instantly approves or condemns them."

The world today explains conscience as follows, "If it feels right, it is right." And so, if you want to sleep with your best friends spouse because you know that you love him and he loves you and it just feels right ... then it is right.

But not when you are a child of the living God. Daily, we need to ask God to purge our consciences from dead works by washing our lives in the blood of Jesus. What are dead works? The Bible says that the wages of sin is death ... anything that produces dead works in your life is as a result of sin. And so, if we are not being washed in the blood of Jesus every day, how then are we going to be alive to God and dead to sin?

When you become a child of God; when you surrender your heart to Christ you become a new creation. The old things are washed away; the way you thought, the way you acted, the things you did ... all of that is washed away and a transformed life is created by the Holy Spirit working in you. God said, "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, I will put my law into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them; and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more."

The flesh and the Spirit are always at war with each other. But the more you meditate on the Word, the more you put Gods law in your heart and into your mind, the slimmer the chance the devil has of having your "conscience seared with a hot iron." I exhort you today to wash your life in the blood of Jesus.