Proverbs 20: 27: "The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly." God provides everyone with a spirit that can evaluate actions and motives. I call this your conscience. The Hebrew literally says that the "breath" is the lamp of the Lord. The "breath" (or "spirit") is that inner spiritual part of human life that was inbreathed at Creation and that constitutes humans as spiritual beings with moral, intellectual, and spiritual capacities. This spiritual nature includes the capacity to know and please God—it serves as the functioning conscience (the metaphor of "lamp"). As a general rule, we know whether something is the right thing to do or not. A good test is whether you feel you must hide something. If you have to hide it, it most likely should be avoided. This point is further developed in the second part; the searching makes it possible for people to know themselves. If one's spiritual life is functioning properly (i.e., yielded to God through salvation and controlled by his word, then there should be increasingly less self-deception or indifference to righteousness. If you know the right thing to do, then do it!
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