• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Waddle On

Life as we know it...

  • Blog
  • About me
  • Contact me
  • Genealogy

Quenched

October 7, 2019 by Laurel Burton Leave a Comment

When I was a kid, I remember lying to my mom about something. I hated when I did something wrong. So, I went back and told her the truth. I felt so guilty.

I am still that way today even though I do wrong stuff all the time. When I know I’ve done something wrong, or am shown it, I feel awful inside. Sometimes to the point of being physically sick.

We sing a song sometimes in worship called Light the Fire. The words are ‘Light the fire in my weary soul. Fan the flame. Make me whole. Lord you know where I’ve been, so light the fire in my heart again.”

There is something in each of us that is given by God, our Creator. Some have more of it than others, while some have lost it all.

I am talking about our conscience.

Why is it that some people have a huge conscience and some don’t have one at all it seems? How do we lose it? Do we rationalize our actions and the actions of others so much, so often, we don’t even realized what is right and wrong anymore? And our conscience just ebbs away?

Why don’t we let ourselves think we are doing any wrong? We rationalize actions that are wrong, and then we go sit in a pew on Sunday mornings worshiping the God who gave us the conscience we don’t use anymore.

We have quenched the Spirit.

We have taken something wonderful that God gave us and are daily quenching it by not thinking about and analyzing our actions and words. Every single action and word.

Are you quenching the Spirit of God today? Are you using your conscience? Do you still have one? Does your flame need to be rekindled or even lit again?

Photo by Yaoqi LAI on Unsplash

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)

Related

Filed Under: Spiritiual

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Penguin photo courtesy of

unsplash-logoFrancisco Arnela

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Categories

Recent Posts

  • The Fault
  • Glorious
  • Precious
  • Good to Know
  • Solo

Comments

  • Laurel Burton on Precious
  • Becky Terry on Precious
  • Kenneth madison on The Rawlings
  • Sharon on Sisters
  • Ellen Sanders on One Last Time

Archives

  • February 2023
  • January 2023
  • September 2022
  • July 2022
  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • January 2022
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018

Copyright © 2023 · Genesis Sample on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in

 

Loading Comments...