Job 27:3-6 As long as I
live, while I have breath from God, my lips will speak no evil, and my tongue
will speak no lies. I will never concede
that you are right until I die. I will
defend my innocence. I will maintain my
innocence without wavering. My
conscience is clear for as long as I live.
Reread slowly these verses.
Examine your own heart. If you
cannot honestly say the same things, you need to let the Lord take control of
you. We can control what comes out of
our mouths. In fact, Jesus reminds us
that what comes out of our mouths is what is in our hearts. If evil words or
lying words come from us it is because they are in us. And if they are in us, we must ask the Lord
to take them away from us. If we don’t,
we will face God and have to answer to Him for it.
Are you confident enough in your righteousness that you can stand
up to anyone and defend your innocence because you know before God that you are
right? Now, there is a difference
between a confidence rooted in self-deception and a confidence rooted in
Christ. We can convince ourselves that
we are better off before God than we really are. If we see ourselves in comparison to others
and let that determine our righteousness, we will more than likely be led to
believe we are okay. However, our
standard of righteousness in not others; it is God’s Word. We must see ourselves as God sees us. If we are not living up to the standards of
God, we are not innocent before Him.
The right thing to do is to humble ourselves and admit our
sinfulness. There is no excuse for
allowing sin to be a part of who we are.
Don’t maintain you are right with God when you know you are not. Listen to the Spirit of Christ as He convicts
you of sin. Then, and only then, can you
say with confidence that your conscious is clear.
May we too be determined to live before God with a clear conscious
as long as we live.
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