The Cold Bites

In this season of fall, it is getting cooler. The wind blows, and in some time there might even be snow. You know how in the winter, when you go outside, the cold nips your toes and you wish you had a scarf around your neck. That is the way a conscience is. It nips and bothers us about wrong. When we lie, we feel it, or when we choose to ignore something that is quite important. It often seems like a little voice inside our head. When we need to make a decision, or a choice. When we disobey our mother. It's there inside us,  and we know what would be the right choice. But the sad thing is that, hardly ever do we make the right choice. More often than not, we ignore that little voice, and think about what we want, perhaps telling ourselves that we made the right choice or that we can make up for it later. That is like putting on more clothes, defending us from the cold. Only, in the winter that is a good thing. Too much cold can result in getting sick, (or getting frozen.) We do more and more bad things, and soon, it doesn't bother us any more. God gave us our conscience so that we would be able to tell the difference between right and wrong. So, we are held fully accountable for our actions. That, at least is what J. I. Packer says, in his book, Concise Theology, ( in my own words of course.)

I've been reading a book called The Black Arrow. It is by Robert Louis Stevenson. Many people would consider it a "boy" book, but I am enjoying very much. In it, the main character discovers what can happen when you do rash things, or decide on the spur of the moment. Some things you can never take back, or make up for. 

 Here is another example. Global warming. IT IS!!!! You can't ignore it. It has shown what can happen when we don't take care of the Earth. We can't take back what we've done.  It is done. It has happened. Even if we do solve the problem, lasting damage has been done. I am also reading a book called    You are Here.
It talks about the problem of Global warming, and where it hurts most. Wouldn't it be great if we could just move to the moon, and not have to worry about the world any more!!!
   So watch what you say. Your conscience is usually right. God made it to be that way.