Dear Friends in Christ -
Today's reading from the Paul's first letter to Timothy hit me like a ton of bricks: "By rejecting conscience, certain persons have suffered shipwreck in the faith . . ."
Perhaps my conscience is overactive (I'm hardwired with this assumption: "He who knoweth the good and doeth it not, to him it is sin"), but my conscience is constantly speaking. Interestingly, the messages it's usually sending are messages that could get me in trouble. For example, here are three things that my conscience has told me to do over the past few days:
- Drop everything and call someone because the person was on my mind, causing me to miss a deadline
- Spend extra time with my son at a transition point in the day, knowing that we would be late to our next appointment
- Call a physician to account for a mistake she made
Granted, these aren't big things. But they are places where I've surely run into others' impatience, frustration, and/or disdain in just attempting to do them (I actually fully succeeded in doing only one of the three). If Paul's right, though, going against my conscience is a bigger problem. Failing to follow my conscience results in my heart being run aground, instead of floating on the sea of faith.
Hmmm. Where might God call me - and you - to risk following conscience today? Let's push our boats further out to sea and see . . .
Faithfully yours,
Janet+
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