Charlie writes and asks a sobering question, Pastor John, what can a person do to restore

the softness of their conscience?

I once had a softer conscience towards impurity, injustice, and sin in general.

I desired to restore my heart to a sensitive state, but Phil is of time and the world

have made it very callous.

I want sin to bother me more.

How can one gain back a tender and sensitive heart towards these things?

I love the spirit of that question.

It's a beautiful longing.

And it points in a frightening way to a really clear, biblical reality, namely that believers

can drift into callous, hard, indifferent frames of heart, basically Charlie, I think

is asking how to reclaim his heart when Hebrews 3, 12 to 13 has begun to happen.

Here's what that says.

Take care, brothers, lest there be any of you, an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you

fall away from the living God, but exhort one another every day, as long as it is called

a day, that none of you may be hardened, none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness

of sin.

So we're hardened by sin's deceit.

And Charlie has described it clearly.

He said, I once had a softer conscience toward impurity and justice, sin in general.

I want it back.

I want to restore that sensitivity so that I won't be callous.

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