Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide Series

I’ve been flying airplanes since 1975, and every airplane has a magnetic compass. You can’t depend on the magnetic compass unless you are flying straight and level because whenever you are climbing, descending, or turning, the compass doesn’t work properly. So every airplane has a gyroscopic compass called a “directional gyro” or a DG for short. This instrument is driven by a small gyroscope which maintains equilibrium even when the airplane is turning or climbing. But the DG is not a real compass, it must be set to match the magnetic compass, and it has to be reset frequently or it will not reflect the correct heading. Even so, as followers of Jesus, we must be constantly and continually recalibrating our consciences to the Word of God.

CONCLUSION

The Bible will guide you into an understanding of what is right and wrong, and it can also guide you into heaven. I recently read a true story about a teenage girl in Columbia who was given a Spanish New Testament. She read the New Testament until one day her father caught her reading it… and told her not to read it any more because it was full of lies and fantasy. But the girl kept on reading until one day her father came home unexpectedly found her with the New Testament grabbed it from her hands and shoved it into his briefcase. The father went off to work where he was a mining engineer. Several hours later there was a muffled explosion then the sound of sirens. There had been a cave-in at the mine. The father was trapped in the mine along with 30 other workers. The rescue workers took 5 days to finally reach the men, but it was too late. All 31 men died including the father of this little girl. Curiously, workers found the man clutching the New Testament between his praying hands. When they opened the front cover they found a note: “To my daughter Keep reading this New Testament, it is true and right, and I will see you one day in heaven.” Then they turned to the back page where the father had signed the commitment card after having said the sinner’s prayer. But that was not the end of the story. Turning the page there were signed the names of the other 30 workers. Let your conscience be your guide? Heaven forbid! Let God’s Word illuminated by God’s Spirit be your guide!