Let your Conscience Be Your Guide | Dumb Things Smart Christians Believe | Pastor Joel Schulz

How often have we heard these words, “Let your conscience be your guide.” No doubt the acceptance of this concept is the reason why so many people's lives are messed up and broken. The problem is that a lot of us imagine our conscience to be a spiritual thermometer. We assume it can be placed into any situation and it will tell us the moral temperature - too hot, too cold or just right. But, that’s not how our conscience works. Its more like the thermostat in our living room. It reflects our definition of hot and cold. We set it ot the standards we choose.We determine when it kicks in or when it stays idle. Our conscience doesn’t tell us if we’re violating God’s standards. It tells us when we’re violating our standards. Our conscience can’t be our guide because it needs to be guided itself - by God’s Word.