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 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 1st 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
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