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Excerpted from: Producing FruitWhat should a person do if he is in doubt about whether a thing is right or wrong? It is very human to have doubts, because we do not know everything. And there are sometimes situations that we have never faced before; and we wonder what is the right way to go, what is the wrong way to go.
Now, most of us have convictions about what is right and what is wrong, do we not? And even if we do not know for sure, it is very likely that in the back or the front of our mind—or however you want to put it—there is going to be a nagging doubt as to whether or not what you are about to do is right or wrong. Now, which do you do? That is what is posed here in Romans 14:22-23.
I will tell you God's instruction. When in doubt, do not! It is that simple. Because, even if you are about to do something that is lawful and right in God's mind, if you doubt that it is right, you have sinned if you do it. Now how about those apples? We can actually sin doing something that is lawful and right in God's mind, in God's eyes, because we doubted whether it was right. We were not convicted it was right.
That is what I mean when I say sin is not all that simple. And what God is telling you is that when there is doubt, you better hang onto your conviction. And the reason for that is that, if you go against your convictions, you are doing something that is destructive to character. And God is going to know that, when push comes to shove, you are going to crumble. Your integrity is not going to hold.
God's instruction then would be—do not do what you are not convicted is right. Hang on to your conviction but then go check it out, think about it, meditate on it. Come to Him in prayer and ask Him for help. Ask Him to give understanding, the right kind of conviction as to what is right and wrong. And He is faithful. He will do it because He wants you to be educated in these things. And then, when your conviction changes, you can go ahead and do it. Your character will not be damaged in doing it in that manner.
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