God’s preacher in the heart – Thomas Brooks

“I strive always to keep my conscience clear before God and man.” Acts 24:16

Conscience is God’s preacher in the heart. Conscience is a thousand witnesses for or against a man. Those who dally and tamper with this sin or that sin, develop a guilty   which clouds, clogs, and distracts the soul with many fears, doubts, and scruples. God will have no communion with those who, against light and checks of conscience dally and tamper with this sin or that sin.

The harboring of some unmortified lust, some secret, special, peculiar sin is the greatest and most common cause of the lack of assurance, comfort, and peace.

How should it be otherwise, seeing God, who is infinitely wise, holy, and righteous will not reveal the secrets of His love to those who harbor His known enemies in their bosoms?

The great God will not regard the prayers of those who play and dally with that very sin, or that very lust for which He hides His face from them.