Text: 1 Samuel 24:1-12
Memory verse:
”For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.“
‭‭I John‬ ‭3‬:‭20‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

In legal matters, no one can begin to rejoice after winning a suit at the lower court, even at the appeal court. A successful suit at these courts can still be upturned at the apex court. It means the judgment at the lower court is not final.
This is not like that with the judgement of the conscience. If your conscience finds you guilty and condemns your action, you can’t appeal it. You can only accept it and immediately repent. We can’t bribe, manipulate, or cover up the judgment. God wouldn’t entertain any of such appeal. Indeed, God will condemn you more. Whatever our conscience condemns, God doesn’t justify because the righteousness of God is not lesser than the standard of our conscience. “If our conscience condemns us, we know that God is greater than our conscience and that he knows everything.” (1 John 3:20).
So, when our conscience condemns us, we must halt our proposed action immediately if we haven’t started or stop and repent if we have already embarked on the task. It is vain to attempt to bypass the voice of the conscience or bribe or make peace with the conscience so it will no longer voice its disapproval of their actions! Those who do this try to justify their actions. They think that anything that passes the test of reasoning must be the will of God and being hopeful that with their strong reason, they will upturn the earlier judgment of the conscience. Unfortunately, the conscience, unlike the court, doesn’t base judgment on strong reasonings. Contrarily, the conscience through its harmonious relationship with the intuition, discerns, and judges according to the will of God and not according to reasoning. Reasoning may justify action and satisfy the mind but not the conscience. According to our text, killing Saul would have satisfied the reasoning of David and his men but not their conscience. David had learnt from past experiences to live according to his conscience. The conscience will speak out to condemn or react in protest whenever a man rebels against the move of the intuition. Yes, many things may be judged good in the eyes of man, yet they are condemned by the conscience unless they are based on God’s word and the believer’s intuition.
Friends, don’t walk according to reason nor do something because it is reasonable but only according to the will of God as revealed in the intuition.

Prayer points
1. Father, deliver me from the tendency of walking according to reasoning or popular opinion or because it is reasonable but always according to your will, in Jesus’ name.
2. Father, help me to stop and repent whenever my conscience expresses disapproval on a matter, in Jesus’ name.

Today’s declarations
1. Whenever my conscience condemns my actions, I know God has also condemned it, and I repent immediately.
2. I know that, unlike the judgment of the court, the judgment of the conscience can’t stop until the matter is resolved.