Day 20 – Teen Devotion: Voice Training

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God gave every person an internal moral thermostat. It’s their conscience, also called your inner voice. It can be a means of grace to help you change, or it can be your worst enemy. How do you biblically train your conscience? How can you distort it?

Read Rick’s 31-Day Devotions

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• 31-Day Parenting Devotion
• 31-Day Teen Devotion

Your conscience will react to how you respond to life situations. An action transpires, and your conscience reacts to it. A right reaction will make your conscience more in tune with God’s Word. A wrong response will cause a dulling effect that distances you from God and His truth.

If you do not respond correctly to the things in your life, your conscience will respond by laying down a thin hard layer over itself. It is similar to a person who lies in the sun too long. The skin toughens in reaction to the heat of the sun. Whether you are an unrepentant sinner or a sunbather, the result is the same: you will alter your sensitivities in unnatural ways.

• The sunbather will have leathered skin as they age.
• The unrepentant will have a hard heart.

You will never be freer than when your conscience and God’s Word are singing in harmony. If you continue to resist the truth, your conscience will become so calloused that you will not be able to discern right from wrong. Being blind to your blindness is the worst kind of blindness.

Time to Reflect

How would you describe your conscience? Is it weak, hard, dull, or biblically informed? There are four ways to train your conscience correctly.

• Canon – God’s Word tells you the truth.
• Comforter – The Spirit of God illuminates you to the truth.
• Community – Biblical friends hold you accountable to the truth.
• Conscience – Your inner voice affirms that you’re walking in the truth.

1. How are these four means of grace working for you?
2. What changes do you need to make so your conscience is more in-line with God’s Word?

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Rick Thomas

Rick launched the Life Over Coffee global training network in 2008 to bring hope and help for you and others by creating resources that spark conversations for transformation. His primary responsibilities are resource creation and leadership development, which he does through speaking, writing, podcasting, and educating.

In 1990 he earned a BA in Theology and, in 1991, a BS in Education. In 1993, he received his ordination into Christian ministry, and in 2000 he graduated with an MA in Counseling from The Master’s University. In 2006 he was recognized as a Fellow of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors (ACBC).