Conscience

When peace reigns in the Conscience there is always power over sin. Peace is like a sentinel that keeps guard at the door of the heart; if the sentinel be off his post, either the tumult within drowns the voice of the Spirit, or, because of the stillness of death, his voice is not heard.

A guilty Conscience is one of Satan’s great weapons against the children of God: faith can only be bold as the Conscience is clean.

There is no trial to the believer like guilt upon the Conscience; but it is the triumph of faith to see guilt removed by the atoning blood of Christ. A very little stain upon the Conscience makes a wide breach in our communion with God.

If we have a doubt upon our minds upon any point, we should go straight to Jesus to get it solved. Love abhors a winding course.

If the Conscience be not rightly instructed, it becomes a tool for Satan; if it speaks a false peace, it works ruin; and if it does not speak peace at all, it is a tormentor.

We should never deal lightly with the whispers of a doubtful Conscience.

Let Christ keep the heart, and the heart shall keep the life.

Our lack of walking in the Spirit often moves others to like negligence.

How great a blessing is a tender Conscience; one that will discern and deal with a little sin - that will lead us to say, “Search me, O God!” In this state we not only grieve at an angry thought, or an outbreak of temper, but even for a thought of unbelief that may but glance across the mind.

The pardon of sin sealed on the Conscience strengthens the soul for communion with God; whilst guilt on the Conscience drives us from God. These are noiseless things in the world, but great things with God.

The child of God should remember that he has the root of every evil within him: if he take not heed to tend the garden of his Conscience, evil weeds will spring up and grow; especially will the besetting sins of his unconverted days be his plague.

A scrupulous Conscience comes of the flesh, and ignorance of God’s will; but a good Conscience is among the best of God’s blessings, for it is cleansed by the blood of Christ, and enlightened by the scriptures and the Spirit of God.

We must deal with our Consciences as people do with their houses: if they would keep their dwellings clean, they must day by day be cleaning.

A spiritual Conscience deals most with the evil of the heart; but when the conscience is not spiritual, the heart is the last thing dealt with.

A rebuke from the Lord duly regarded will lead us into safe paths, whilst a rebuke not heeded is the forerunner of sharp correction.

The heavenly Conscience never says, “Must I give up this? must I give up that” for this pleases not the heart of Christ.

Have I faith and a good Conscience? then I can leave everything to God - let Him give, or take, or withhold as He pleases.

A pure Conscience is a conscience so thoroughly purged by the blood of Christ, that it makes the soul, as it were, a mirror wherein is seen the face of our heavenly Father.

A tender Conscience concerning unbelief and its slightest stirrings, will greatly help us in our path of obedience, and in our walk with God.

We ought to be ever trying our Consciences by the Word of God, and helping our neighbours to do the same. It would indeed be a blessing to the saints, were they to exercise themselves in judging everything by the Scriptures. A child of God may walk unblameably in men’s eyes, yet have little of the mind of Christ, and little of the spirit of communion: his Conscience may be in so small a measure guided by the word of God, that as to edifying others, he is little better than a piece of lumber.