Common Ground

August 5, 2024

 “Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness,” —Ephesians 6:14 

We live in a time where people want to make up their own truth. I can’t tell you how often I’ve heard, “Well, that may be true for you, but it’s not true for me.” How do we answer that? To be honest, if someone is persistent in that thinking, it’s hard to find common ground to talk. But unless the person is actually crazy, we do have common ground. It’s called the conscience, and though there are some things your conscience may permit that mine doesn’t, God has built into us a moral and ethical compass that we can ignore if we wish, but we can’t escape it. Here’s what the Bible says: 

“(When Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.)” —Romans 2:14-15 

So take heart when witnessing to people; their conscience is on your side, even if their heart and mind are not!.