While we were gone to camp, the city where I live paved the main street through town. This was really nice of them. The new road looks great, like at the end of Cars (except without the new neon and white wall tires). It was especially cool because I get to have the benefit of the new road without the hassle of lane closures and work crews. The only thing the have yet to do is finish putting all the white dashes in to differentiate between the lanes. It reminds me of that Seinfeld episode where Kramer adopts a highway and paints over the white lines, giving the drivers “extra wide lanes”
The thing about it, though, is that even though I don’t have the white lines telling me where to go, I know where that lane should be. I know where my car is supposed to go. It will be nice when they finally get those lines in there, but I don’t really need them because I know exactly what I’m supposed to do. Though I have been given the extra wide lane, I don’t use it because I know not to.
All of us have a conscience; God placed that in us to tell us what was right and wrong. He gave us His Word to share very clearly what His expectations are, but even without it we know that there are things that are right and things that are wrong. We need God’s Word to keep our conscience from being overruled by our sinful nature, but that understanding of where we’re supposed to be in our lives has been planted in there from birth. Whether we choose to listen to it is up to us, but just like driving down a road with no white lines, I still know where I’m supposed to be. It’s this existence of a common conscience in all of us that proves God’s existence. How good of Him to give us that conscience so that we would have the capacity to choose right.
The thing about it, though, is that even though I don’t have the white lines telling me where to go, I know where that lane should be. I know where my car is supposed to go. It will be nice when they finally get those lines in there, but I don’t really need them because I know exactly what I’m supposed to do. Though I have been given the extra wide lane, I don’t use it because I know not to.
All of us have a conscience; God placed that in us to tell us what was right and wrong. He gave us His Word to share very clearly what His expectations are, but even without it we know that there are things that are right and things that are wrong. We need God’s Word to keep our conscience from being overruled by our sinful nature, but that understanding of where we’re supposed to be in our lives has been planted in there from birth. Whether we choose to listen to it is up to us, but just like driving down a road with no white lines, I still know where I’m supposed to be. It’s this existence of a common conscience in all of us that proves God’s existence. How good of Him to give us that conscience so that we would have the capacity to choose right.
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