BBD 07.21.21 A Corrupted Conscience (Classic)
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Classic from 2002
The Burning Bush Devotional
21 July 2021
A Corrupted Conscience
To the
pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing
is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled. - Titus 1:15.
In
Albuquerque, New Mexico Amadeo Salguero was arrested for the carjacking of an
Acura at the point of a gun from three people. The Acura had an excellent
stereo system, which most likely was what Salguero was after. Salguero was
having difficulty operating the system, and so he called one of his victims and
asked, “I
don't want there to be hard feelings, but, hey, how do you hook up your amp?” The call was traced to Salguero’s cell phone, who lived just across
the street from where the carjacking occurred.
One
translation of Titus 1:15 instead of “defiled,” says “corrupted,” and both words could be used. With Amadeo Salguero we see a
corruption of his conscience. His conscience is so corrupted that he sees
little wrong with robbing someone at gunpoint. I’m sure he was quite shocked
when the police arrived to arrest him after his call for help about operating
the stereo system.
Recently
I visited with a deputy sheriff after our church was broken into, and he said
that the people they were dealing with now are the children of those they were
arresting ten to fifteen years ago. Hard to believe, but corruption is being
taught by the example, and words of some parents. Of course, the world itself
is corrupted, and constantly bombards the minds of all of us with its evil
message. We should fear having a conscience that is not able to provide a moral
guide, and that does not know right from wrong, or sees everything not as black
and white, but in shades of gray. Robert
J. Little says, “seared
conscience is one whose warning voice has been suppressed and perverted
habitually, so that eventually instead of serving as a guide, it only confirms
the person in his premeditatedly evil course.”
The
solution for uncorrupting a corrupted conscience is found in Hebrews 9:14 which says, “How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit
offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to
serve the living God?” Once our conscience
has been cleansed, we should strive to keep it that way, as we see in the
example of the apostle Paul who says, “I have hope in God, which they themselves also accept, that there will be
a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust. This being so, I
myself always strive to have a conscience without offense toward God and men
(Acts 24:16).”
In
other words, Paul strived always to keep
his conscience clear or pure. We must do the same!
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