Proverbs 20:27 The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly. Man is not an animal, and he is not like any animal. God Jehovah, Creator of heaven and earth, put something in man that makes him very different. God gave man a conscience, and this conscience is a law, teacher, and judge for each man, woman, and child. Your conscience is the candle of the LORD. This light from God inside you examines and judges your thoughts, words, and deeds. Man makes choices by more than instincts, for God gave every conscious person a conscience to help him know and do what is right. The word conscience has two parts: con (with) + science (knowledge) = knowing with and within yourself about yourself. This invisible spirit inside you has a sense of right and wrong, and it will approve right things and condemn wrong things you do. It will also reflect on what others do and make judgments as to whether they were right or wrong. Consider how you can have a thought within yourself and yet analyze and judge that thought as well! A man can only know himself by his conscience; he cannot know another person by it (I Cor 2:11). Sometimes your spirit is full of joy, and sometimes it is full of sadness, and no other person can fully feel or know your emotions (Pr 14:10). Your belly in this proverb is metonymy for your heart and mind. It is a figure of speech that uses a part of the body to refer to what goes on there. When you are moved by love or fear, you can feel it in your belly. When it is love, you may say, “My stomach flipped.” When it is fear, you may say, “I am sick with fear.” According to the proverb, your conscience examines your entire inner person to help direct your choices in things
Posted on: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:00:31 +0000
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