Generally you have a clear conscience or a bad conscience. A bad conscience is known as a Guilty conscience. I guess you could also have no conscience at all, but we want to focus on how to deal with the guilty side.
You don’t have to deal with your conscience until you do something wrong, then your conscience kicks into action. Then the question becomes, why do we do things that we know is wrong? Why do we still do things even knowing there will be consequences?
I bet you know what I’m going to say, you got it, Sin.
The Pain of a Bad Conscience
Sin creates shame and wants you to be right in the middle of it. I don’t believe sin has a conscience, but it knows you do and uses it to put the weight of guilt on your shoulders.
Lets not forget we allow ourselves to be influenced by these thoughts which turn into actions. Some of these actions we can reverse, we can make amends for. Other times we can’t, this is the deadliest type of guilty conscience you can have.
When you truly feel bad, but that person is no longer here to reconcile with, how do you deal with this guilt?
First Step – Forgiveness
Under these situations emotions pile up, you have emotional outbursts that are almost unbearable at times. To heal a bad conscience you need to administer forgiveness, most times this is forgiving yourself. If you believe that sin in some form or shape is at work here seek christian counseling, they have a real good understanding about what’s at work here.
They understand how sin works, they can guide you to the first steps of forgiveness. What guilt does is makes it very hard to forgive yourself. I am my biggest critic and I bet you have the same difficulty when it comes to shaking off your conscience.
Feelings of shame, embarrassment, remorse and oh yes, guilt. Dealing with your conscience can be a lifetime battle, on the other hand it can be a lesson.
These types of lesson, ones that hurt you to your core create opportunity for change. Do we always take full advantage of these opportunities? From experience I will say at times we do, but, and here’s the big but, we slowly revert back to old habits over time. This is just the way it works.
Second Step – Reversing Human Nature
Our Nature is a development of many years of seeing, hearing and experiencing things in our lives. Just as the sun rises and sets each day, it would take a lot to change that natural pattern. How about us? When we develop patterns or habits that create bad situations, how hard is it to change?
It’s hard to reverse human nature, countries still fight among each other, religious differences that have been festering for thousands of years still are as dogmatic as they were at the start, this is human nature an it’s a bitch to reverse it.
In my early years I like to drink bloody mary’s, one new years eve I drank so many that I passed out and awoke the next day in bed with a horrendous headache, a sore chest and through my blurry eyes saw my white turtle neck shirt covered in red. At first I thought it was blood, but later found out it was the bloody part of the Mary. From that day forward I never had any desire to drink a bloody mary, in fact that experience was somehow ingrained in my brain cells (even though I don’t remember a thing) to the point where that particular drink repulsed me.
Is this what it takes to reverse human nature? I guess it boils down to this – how many drinks of a “Bad Conscience” do we have to have before we get that “Permanent Change”.
Don’t rough yourself up to much, we’re only human.
Republished by Blog Post Promoter
