Your Conscience is Enough!
Have you ever had a conversation with someone, or wondered how God will judge those that never heard of the gospel of Christ before they died.
Or those that never “knew” a particular act was a sin and kept indulging in it until they died.
Apostle Paul’s teaching in the book of Romans gave us an answer to this. But, before you go straight to the scripture, I would like us to address something.
There is something called a “Human Conscience” that God has put in everyman. It is a mechanism he uses to call men back.
See, the worse thing that can ever happen to a man is to have his conscience seared. That you kept doing a particular act until you do not feel bad about it anymore, and you think you’ve grown? You’ve just become more dead.
This is why a group of robbers can embark on a robbery operation and in the process kill many cops and civilians but only feel guilty of the fact that they could not protect one of their own who got killed during the operation.
Your conscience! How alive is it? Does God still use it to communicate with you? To call you back to order.
So Romans 2: 12 (KJV) says:
For as many that have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be Judged by law.
What this verse is simply saying is that there is judgement for you that still say “I did not know”, “I wasn’t aware”.
And I will confidently say that the scale which will be used to Judge you will be your conscience, your thoughts. Those thoughts that were telling you that this thing isn’t right.
I will prove it in this second verse. Romans 2:14:
For when the Gentiles which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in law, these having not the law, are a law unto themselves.
Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another.
When Gentiles or people without the law do by nature (by instinct, by conscience) such things they do, are counted as law unto themselves.
You might not have read it anywhere but something deep in you tells you that stealing is bad and engaging in sensual conversations is bad, that thing telling you because it is in alignment with the law (Bible) can stand against you in the day you meet Christ.
Their conscience bearing witness, and their thoughts accusing and excusing one another. Those thoughts are enough to make you guilty before God. The thoughts that can tell right from wrong.
You’ve never heard God out rightly, but your conscience is always speaking. Sometimes, the Holy Spirit speaks through our thoughts.
“Don’t do this” your mind says but you went ahead and the consequences made you utter the words “And my mind told me not to o”.
One way to live life is to check with your conscience often. If it bids you NO, try and find out why. Open your scriptures, reach out to someone who is knowledgeable and a good Christian.
Your mind, thoughts, conscience, are some of the ways God speaks to you, know that they are enough to stand against you in the day of Judgement.
Your Conscience is enough!
Beware of this.
stay blessed. Thank You.