A Seared Conscience

Proverbs 5:6

          She gives no thought to the way of life; her paths are crooked, but
          she knows it not.

The writer to the Proverbs warns his son to watch out for an adulteress woman. The biggest danger of someone who lives in premeditated sin is that they become calloused to their activities or develop a seared conscious Charles Finney, a prominent preacher and professor delivered a lecture on the seared conscious. He commented that "A seared conscience may be general or particular; that is, the mind may become generally insensible to moral obligation and the ill desert of sin; or this insensibility may be confined to particular sins."

After much misuse, the human mind can become immune to right and wrong. The writer warns his son that relations with such a person is dangerous. They have been so trained in doing wrong that they will do wrong and not realize it. We all must guard against our own blind spots and pockets of sin that we allow to live alongside our profession of faith in God. We must root out evil before it becomes normal in our lives.