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Exercising Your Senses
Are you doing a good job with determining what is right and wrong? Do you have trouble drawing the line? Are you leaving the choice up to others and not up to God?
God has given us five physical senses - Taste, Touch, Smell, Hearing, and Sight. Each of these warn us of what is good or bad for our bodies. Each of these senses sends a warning signal to our brains telling us what to avoid. The problem we have is heeding the warning.
We can exercise the same physical senses to discern good and evil. Think about Taste. With taste we can discern that drinking alcohol, cursing, reviling, using angry words, or taking illegal drugs are all acts of wickedness. Our sense of Smell helps us determine smoking cigarettes, marijuana, or sniffing cocaine is an exercise in sin. Touching, which an lead to lust, fornication, dancing, homosexuality, stealing, lasciviousness, or adultery are works of sin. Seeing immodesty, pornography, immoral TV and movies (sexual or violent), or looking to covet what another has are actions of evil. What we Hear in immoral music, false doctrine, profane talking and joking, words of strife, anger, or encouragement to do evil are signs of sin.
Although our five senses help us determine good and evil, the origin of all we do is in the heart. “But the things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings: these are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not the man” (Matthew 15:18-20). How well your five senses respond to good and evil depends on whether your heart responds to God or Satan.
