The Conscience Points to A Creator

There are many cases for a Creator:

Like thought and morality and DNA

But a very compelling one is the conscience

That points us towards God’s way.

None of these four could just happen

With an origin in a Big Bang,

Some Intelligence had to be responsible

And upon this all of creation hangs.

Someone with the ability to think

Must have had the very first thought,

God’s expressed thought re: man’s creation

Was an idea the Trinity brought.

“Let us make man,” you would recall

Was the way God expressed that idea

And clearly there was agreement

For the other two had thought the same way.

The other two in the preceding line

Refers to the Word and the Holy Spirit,

They were with God in the beginning

And all of creation was their mandate.

Man was created in God’s image

The Genesis account indicates

So that man possesses God-like attributes

From this one can extrapolate.

Hence the conscience was God-given

When God breathed life into man,

It is a by-product of God’s Spirit

And an integral part of His divine plan.

It distinguishes man from the animals

Which have no such facility,

The conscience points man to God

And respects His Divine Authority.

In 1^st Timothy chapter 4 and verse 2

We read concerning the last days

Of men’s conscience as seared with a hot iron

As they pursue their hypocritical ways.

  

The first Biblical reference to the conscience

Is found in John chapter 8 and verse 9,

Here an adulteress was brought to Jesus

To see what he would do about her crime.

But the way Jesus dealt with the matter

Convicted her accusers by their own conscience,

Not one of them remained to convict her

They were forced to give up their stance.

The conscience is often referred to

As a person’s moral regulator,

It propels us to the moral high ground

It’s our God-given right and wrong indicator.

In all of the earth’s civilizations

Both the primitive and the more advanced,

The conscience has figured immensely

And the quality of life it enhanced.

Conscience is the mind’s alarm

That is triggered when there is the danger

Of overstepping the moral boundaries

Implanted on the heart by the Creator.

When that alarm is frequently ignored

The conscience becomes calloused and numb,

Such an individual loses his moral bearings

And does things despicable and dumb.

His sense of right and wrong goes adrift

With no sense of moral direction,

He can do the ghastliest of things

And experience no moral compunction.

He is perhaps worse than the animal

Which clearly didn’t come with a conscience

And in the present time that we live in

Such would not be difficult to advance.

Remorse is deposited in the conscience

And there too one will find regret,

But both of these come after the act

When faced with the colossal debt.

Critical to a proactive working conscience

Is the alarm that goes off in the mind

That assesses the consequences of such action

And responds up front and not behind.

Good advice is to use the conscience proactively

For prevention is better than cure

And the heeding of one’s God-given conscience

Is better if at first it’s not ignored.

That the conscience is God-given is not in doubt

If one is not blinded by evolution,

In evolution a problem arises as to how

But in creation God provided the solution.

He has written His law within our heart

It’s the law of love and peace,

Heart is synonymous with the conscience He gave

And a conscience towards God brings sweet relief.

Stewart Russell © November 2017