Friday the 13th (2nd month in a row :O)

Friday the 13th is always a fun day. Awesome things happen or...gruesome things happen. Thankfully, tonight was an awesome night.

(No, I'm not talking about Sadies; I didn't go.) Instead, I went to YP (Young People) meeting. (It's for the youth at Church in Fremont.)

Today, we talked about the conscience and what it means to have a pure conscience. After much thought today, the pure conscience is one that isn't conflicted and is for God only, nothing else. This conscience is what is needed when praying to God.

(now for the fun part)
People who normally have a "bad" conscience are the people who don't admit their mistakes, cover up other people's faults, or simply don't listen to that voice in their heads that says, "Do the right thing!" I know, I know, we've all been there, even me. But when we let ourselves become driven by emotion, fear, anger, or other conflicting thoughts, we turn away from our own judgment of what is right or wrong. I'm not saying that we should never listen to others (we should), but our common sense and good judgment is and will always be more important than everything else.

Now that I think about it, I've been in this situation too many times. Being emotionally driven, not confessing my mistakes to let it out of my system...all these things took me away from pure conscience, away from God. I'm not perfect, but I will, from this day on, always keep God in mind; when I go to Him, I use my pure, raw conscience--nothing else will matter.

I know that what I said might make no sense at all to some of you, but just try to understand the second to last paragraph...you may learn something about yourself :)