When a person is not listening to their innermost conscience speaking, it is usually a time when they want to pursue something they know isn’t right, but choose to do it anyway. So I ask, “Whose voice do you think it is? Is it the voice of reason? Is it the voice of wholesome living? Or perhaps it’s the voice of someone who is seeking to devour you.”
I believe God gives us a
conscience to help guide us in times of decision-making. We can listen to what it is saying, or we can
choose not to. It’s as simple as
that. God gives us freedom of
choice. We are freewill moral agents,
free to make our own choices. He will
not usurp the choices we make.
That means if we choose to
disobey God’s commandments, we must take responsibility for those choices and,
hopefully, learn from our mistakes.
Suffering the consequences of our actions is usually what follows.
What we call the conscience, I
believe, can sometimes be that quiet, still prompting of the Holy Spirit trying
to get our attention and give us direction, so that we do not have to reap what
we are about to sow.
Galatians 6:7-8 says, “Be
not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he
also reap. For he that soweth to his
flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit
shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.”
It pays to listen to the voice
of light—the voice of the One who loves us with a never-ending love—not the voice
of darkness that seeks to destroy and take our souls.
Remember, sin loves
darkness. But God’s light—Jesus
Christ—shines into the darkness and reveals sin for what it is: something that
separates us from God.
The Holy Spirit doesn’t
usually come on strong with a loud, annoying voice. He is subtle, factual, and non-condemning,
yet worth listening to.
Elijah encountered God not in
the wind, earthquake, or fire, but in a “still small voice.” — 1 Kings
19:11-12
What voice do you think is best,
and which one will pay good dividends at the end of life’s journey? That’s an easy question: the voice of
Almighty God, the Creator of all things.
Jesus said, “My sheep hear
my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.” — John 10:27.
So, what voice are you
listening to—the one that turns up worms, or the One who turns up roses?
Jesus has often been called
the Rose of Sharon.
Written by,
Papa Boyd
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