Rick Lawson was sitting in church, and he heard his speaker give this definition of a clear conscience.

You can say that you have a clear conscience, if there's nobody I've ever wronged,

I've ever lied to, stolen from, you know, sinned against in any way that I haven't gone back to that person and made it right with them,

you know, and then sought God's forgiveness as well.

And he asked for a show of hands of who could say that.

As our heads were bowed there, I knew that I couldn't raise my hand.

In fact, I almost, you know, physically kind of felt that somebody had just socked me in the stomach.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeDemause for Tuesday, October 30th.

Yesterday, Nancy began a discussion about what it means to have a clear conscience.

And that brings up a lot of questions.

Do you have to really make everything right?

Even small things?

She'll address some of those issues,

continuing in a series called Seeking Him,

experiencing the joy of personal revival.

I want us today to talk about some questions related to clearing our conscience.

One of the first questions that comes up is, do I have to really clear my conscience over everything, even postage stamps, little things, little matters? Do you know, I've experienced it and perhaps

you have too, that the enemy can take the littlest offense. Now I'm talking about a real

offense, not an imagined offense, but a real offense, something you've done that was wrong,

and he can eat you alive in your conscience until you deal with it.

Now, sometimes it's not the enemy. Sometimes it's God who loves you enough to bring conviction

that you need to deal with this. Nothing between my soul and the Savior. That's the way I want to live.

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