Have you lost your conscience?

When we start committing sins, initially everyone normally experiences some disturbance. It is not easy to commit sin, because it is against human nature, against our soul, body and existence. 

For example, some youngsters would smoke and drink secretly, they would make sure no one knew because they knew it was wrong. With lots of struggle, they would do such things, but later once they grew up, they started doing it openly. When they are told not to do it, they would say that  there is nothing wrong with smoking or drinking. When they started committing sins, there were initial difficulties in doing it. This is the same with everyone.  When we start a sin, it is difficult, but sometimes when we do it repeatedly, then the sense of sin is lost. And, then we start justifying our sins.

We read many times that there are so many people who have difficulty in convincing others about their sin. They are blinded completely about it. The word of God in Proverbs 30:20 says “This is the way of an adulteress, she eats and wipes her mouth and says “I have done no wrong.””

Let us examine our conscience and see if we have lost the sense of sin. Initially we were feeling bad about certain sins that we started, but later after continuing it, we have now no guilt feeling, no prick of conscience, we just commit the sin and move around without any prick of conscience. For example, committing sins such as smoking, pornography, unholy relationship, extra marital affair or lying. We lose our prick of conscience and continuous lying can even make us think that this is the truth. We need to examine our conscience and repent about it.