Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, July 3rd. Every person has an internal

system to warn of moral danger. Today, you'll hear some practical ways to sharpen your conscience

and keep it in tune with God. You've heard people say probably for a long time, just let your

conscience be your guide. Is that a safe way to make

decisions? Is it a safe way to make moral decisions about anything? Just let your conscience be your

guide. Because the question is, can you really and truly trust your conscience? How much does your

conscience play in your decision making? Do you say, well, how do I feel about this?

What do I think about this? Will this bother me? And so oftentimes people say, well, you know,

I thought about it, but I knew that if I did, my conscience was going to bother me.

Somebody says, well, you know, nothing bothers my conscience. Then, friend,

you need to listen very carefully because you are already deeply in trouble in your relationship

to God. If you never sense anything about your conscience and your conscience never sends you

any alarm, then you're already deeply in trouble. It is the universal gift that God has

given to every single one of us. And so the proof of it is, he says, written in the heart,

written on the hearts of people. That is, God has given you a conscience for some very

specific reasons. Now, when you think about that, you think about the

whole issue of why did he give it? It's very simple. For our protection. God has given us a

conscience for our protection. Think about children, for example. Children grow up in your home

and you teach them certain things. And so they grow up believing and knowing that certain things

are right and certain things are wrong. And so it is given for our protection. That is, our

conscience is like a judge to say, this is right, this is wrong. It is also, for example,

like a spiritual, shall we say, a spiritual radar.

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