When you become very aware of your sin or remember some great failing of yours in the past, you need to make sure that you don't allow that sin to ruin your conscience. If you do, it will lead you to despair and to an attitude that says, "I might as well just give up!" Rather, what you need to do is look to Jesus and pour your sin back on him to calm your troubled conscience.
Be careful you don't become like misguided people who allow their sin to bite at them and eat at their hearts. They try to rid themselves of guilt by running around doing "good" things they think will either earn their forgiveness or ease God's anger toward them. But the way to get rid of your guilt and sin is to throw them on Christ, firmly believing that it was Jesus' suffering and death that paid for your sins. As Isaiah said, "The Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all" (Isaiah 53:6). Peter said Jesus himself "bore our sins in his body on the tree" (1 Peter 2:24). And Paul said, "God made him who had no sin to be sin for us" (2 Corinthians 5:21).
These verses will help you calm a troubled conscience. The more your conscience torments you, the more you need to rely on them! For if you don't do this and you try to quiet your conscience through being a "better" person or making some nice efforts to help others, you will never find peace of mind and will finally be full of fear and hopelessness in the end. But when you think of your sins as being on Christ and boldly believe that he conquered them through his death and resurrection, then they are dead and gone! Sin can't remain on Christ! His resurrection has swallowed up sin!
And that truth blesses you with a clean conscience.
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