And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offense toward God, and toward humanity. (Acts 24: 16)

These lines from the writings of Dr. Arnot give an interesting description of a person’s conscience. “A person may be saved from death by seeing the reflection of danger in a mirror, when the danger itself could not be directly seen. The executioner with his weapon is stealthily approaching through a corridor of the castle to the spot where the devoted invalid reclines. In his musings, the captive has turned his vacant eye toward a mirror on the wall; and the faithful witness reveals the impending stroke in time to secure the escape of the captive victim. It is thus that the mirror in the human breast has become in a sense the person’s savior, by revealing the wrath to come before its coming. Happy are they who take the warning-happy are they who turn and live.”

It has been said that human’s conscience was given after the Fall in the Garden. The creature’s desire to know good and evil had been granted. But God, in Divine Mercy, gave also a means of telling good from evil. That mechanism, which God placed in the human heart, was the conscience. Don’t ignore the prompting of your conscience or let your conscience become calloused. It’s more than a sixth sense–it’s a beacon whose homing signal is heaven.

Holy God of Love, thank You for the beacon within our hearts. My we never lose the signal or ignore the messages You send through Your Holy Spirit!