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What Voice Tells Us There Is A God?
Years ago I counselled a young wife who repeatedly had sexual relations with other men for days at a time. She was destroying her marriage with her husband, who had come to see me earlier. She did not see anything wrong with her illicit sexual relationships. She said that she had every intention of continuing her immoral behavior, for she saw nothing wrong with it. What God’s Word said about such immorality made no difference to her. My efforts to counsel her failed.
Months later, when I happened to see her husband who divorced her, I learned that she had become very emotionally disturbed and suffered nightly from horrible nightmares. I strongly suspected then that her conscience had started eating her alive and was giving her no rest. Her immoral lifestyle that she had refused to admit was wrong was in the end screaming out and destroying her.
Romans 2:15 informs us that even the unbelievers who are not God’s people ”demonstrate the practical proof of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying in support of it, and their thoughts going back and forth between accusing or even defending them.” When God created the human race, he wrote his moral law in mankind’s heart. That moral law accuses people when they do wrong and justifies their actions when they do right. When they do something wrong, like the immoral behavior of that young wife, their conscience bothers them and makes tshem feel guilty, because it lets them know there is a God whom they have disobeyed and to whom they will have to give an account.
The conscience has been called the still, silent voice within us. Sometimes, however, as in the case of that young wife, the conscience is not so still and silent; it rages and raves.
So in addition to nature, what voice tells us there is a God? Our conscience! It tells us there is a God to whom we must answer for our wrong doings.
Months later, when I happened to see her husband who divorced her, I learned that she had become very emotionally disturbed and suffered nightly from horrible nightmares. I strongly suspected then that her conscience had started eating her alive and was giving her no rest. Her immoral lifestyle that she had refused to admit was wrong was in the end screaming out and destroying her.
Romans 2:15 informs us that even the unbelievers who are not God’s people ”demonstrate the practical proof of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying in support of it, and their thoughts going back and forth between accusing or even defending them.” When God created the human race, he wrote his moral law in mankind’s heart. That moral law accuses people when they do wrong and justifies their actions when they do right. When they do something wrong, like the immoral behavior of that young wife, their conscience bothers them and makes tshem feel guilty, because it lets them know there is a God whom they have disobeyed and to whom they will have to give an account.
The conscience has been called the still, silent voice within us. Sometimes, however, as in the case of that young wife, the conscience is not so still and silent; it rages and raves.
So in addition to nature, what voice tells us there is a God? Our conscience! It tells us there is a God to whom we must answer for our wrong doings.
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