Lenten Midweek 5

A guilty, heavy conscience can wreak havoc on a person and on a soul.  As King David was inspired to write in a psalm, hearkening back to his time of sinful indiscretions bottled up inside, he says, “When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long” (Psalm 32:3).  It is what a guilty, unclean conscience can do.  One can only imagine the state of most of Joseph’s brothers, who for nearly twenty years kept to themselves the treatment of their brother and the secrets and lies kept from their father, Jacob.  Through this Genesis account and throughout Scripture, we are reminded again what can cleanse a conscience and give peace to a soul.  Through repentance, confession, forgiveness, and the grace of God, we are affirmed through Christ’s sacrifice on the cross, and a clean conscience and new life is had.