[Manna - November 24]
Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offense toward God, and toward man. Acts 24:16
OUR consciences require regulating, as do all the
other features of our fallen nature.
If our consciences
are to be regulated we must have some standard by
which to set and regulate them.
The conscience is
like a watch whose dial is properly marked with the
hours, but whose correctness as a time-keeper depends
upon the proper regulating of its mainspring,
so that it may point out the hours truthfully: so our
consciences are ready to indicate right and wrong to
us, but they can only be relied upon to tell us truly
what is right and what is wrong after being regulated
in connection with the new mainspring, the new heart,
the pure will, brought into full harmony with the
law of love, as presented to us in the Word of God. Z. '00-360 R2735:1