How does your concious work as you get older?

[Canadian36]

I was wondering, how exactly does your conscious work as you get older? What I mean by this is for example. When you're a young child, if you see something bad on tv like someone shooting someone else it strikes emotion in your. Your concious screams, don't watch this. Then say you get older, your in your teens, you got to a party, people are drinking, or doing drugs. You fall to peer pressure and do it, and your concious end up bothering you the next day that you went along with the partying. Okay fast forward even more. So you're an adult you end up cheating on your wife and having sex at work with a co worker. So your concious really bothers you. Perhaps slightly less. And as you get older and older it seems like as if when some kind of sin arrises it's as if you've been exposed to situations like that so many times, even if you didn't fall for it, but that it no longer bothers you. it's like as if when people get older they have a much thicker sink and concious than say a kid. So I'm trying to understand if that's a normal process of life? Or should you still feel as innocent and having your concious working to convict you just as much at age 70 as it did at age 7? I guess the reason I ask is that I'm only in my 30's. I've never done anything majorly wrong. But I think I've been exposed to so much garbage over the years, some of the sin I've ended up falling too at times, that now it really takes quit a bit for my concious to star bugging me. So I'm not sure what's up with that. Is that just a normal progression of life or is that something that needs careful attention?

 

[cfultz3]

Listen up YOUNG MAN,

The devil knows that a conscience bombarded with the same thing over and over makes one "friendly" to it. So, throughout one's life, they are often tempted with the sin they are most weak to, in an affect to weaken them to it. But, as the Psalmist said, "Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me". (Psa 51:10) And so does the Spirit renew you. But when one is not viligent and praying, then one is lead into temptation. (Mat 26:41) seeing that their guard is lowered without continious prayer.

Take it from an OLD MAN!!!!!!!

 

[AnandaHya]

I was wondering, how exactly does your conscious work as you get older? What I mean by this is for example. When you're a young child, if you see something bad on tv like someone shooting someone else it strikes emotion in your. Your concious screams, don't watch this

yep my husband says I can't watch scary movies cuz they give me nightmares.

Then say you get older, your in your teens, you got to a party, people are drinking, or doing drugs. You fall to peer pressure and do it, and your concious end up bothering you the next day that you went along with the partying.

so you repent and avoid such parties in the future because you know you are weak and more likely to sin....

Okay fast forward even more. So you're an adult you end up cheating on your wife and having sex at work with a co worker. So your concious really bothers you. Perhaps slightly less.

what how did this slow fade ever end up here?

And as you get older and older it seems like as if when some kind of sin arrises it's as if you've been exposed to situations like that so many times, even if you didn't fall for it, but that it no longer bothers you.

I don't know most of the elderly that I hang out are still bothered by sin so I'm not sure what you are talking about....

it's like as if when people get older they have a much thicker sink and concious than say a kid.

ummm really?

So I'm trying to understand if that's a normal process of life?

I would have to say no. my kids concious don't convict them when they are young. to share is a taught thing. to care for others is a taught not innate within the human. some humans never learn. The Holy Spirit teaches people these things and with age you should have MORE conviction instead of less...

Or should you still feel as innocent and having your concious working to convict you just as much at age 70 as it did at age 7? I guess the reason I ask is that I'm only in my 30's. I've never done anything majorly wrong. But I think I've been exposed to so much garbage over the years, some of the sin I've ended up falling too at times, that now it really takes quit a bit for my concious to star bugging me. So I'm not sure what's up with that. Is that just a normal progression of life or is that something that needs careful attention?

I get convicted every time I read my Bible because I realize what I could have done, should have done and did not do with my day, but I pray and ask God to help me make better use of the next day for His glory and take it a step at a time.

I like this Psalm 19

12 Who can understand his errors?
Cleanse me from secret faults.
13 Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins;
Let them not have dominion over me.
Then I shall be blameless,
And I shall be innocent of great transgression.
14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
Be acceptable in Your sight,
O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.

If I have done wrong I pray and ask God to reveal it to me and hope that others are able to forgive me my trespass and that the brethren help one another to stand against the wile of the devil and move toward that upward calling of God.

perhaps it is "natural" for this world for people to become calloused to sin but God calls for us to repent of it and keep ourselves from the lust of this world,.

Philippians 4
8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. 9 The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.

 

[Grandpa]

This was bothering me a few years ago, too. I was about 37-38 just like you. I was worried that maybe the world was turning me into an angry old man. I started wondering how my true personality in heaven is going to be like. Certainly it would not be angry, or old.

That got me thinking. If my personality in heaven is going to be a certain way why can't my personality now be more like that?

Well as you probably know you can't just change your personality. But your heart can be changed. I am a witness to that.

Your heart can become much more sensitive to everything. But there is only one way. Jesus Christ.

 

[chilldude99]

Your brain is moulded to you. It is a creation that is based on your experiences throughout life. As you age your conscious brain becomes more involved. We want to make more choices affecting things regarding the business of our life. We grow as humans when we do this. As you age and go through your teenage years, you go through something known as an existential crisis, one where we struggle to find our purpose in the world. Part of our struggle involves finding a social group to be a part of, to mould our identity. This would inevitably involve being exposed to drugs, and things of the sort. It doesn't mean your a terrible person, it means your are a normal human, trying to find his purpose in a maze of possibilities, This is often how the world appears to many teenagers. I don't believe this is the Devil's work one bit. Because

WHat you are going through is natural. You are mimicking the morals that have been given to you no doubt by your parents and the people you have interacted with throughout life. In the business of life those morals are questioned more as you have more free will. We use morals to guide our decisions. If not we'd all be sociopaths.

As a result I think the conscious mind is an evermore entity that seeks to gain as much control over one's life, in the realm of morality, and that this is an constant process throughout life that grows with us. Be wise, don't blame your problems on the devil and accept that people do things, and you HAVE control of your life, and not some demonic entity. Your conscious will convict you more at age 70 than at age 7. Your memory is further developed and so is your ability to reason, as a result you would feel more guilt over a wrongdoing, as opposed to age 7 where you may not feel it was wrong until someone showed you that it was.

 

[pickles]

I was wondering, how exactly does your conscious work as you get older? What I mean by this is for example. When you're a young child, if you see something bad on tv like someone shooting someone else it strikes emotion in your. Your concious screams, don't watch this. Then say you get older, your in your teens, you got to a party, people are drinking, or doing drugs. You fall to peer pressure and do it, and your concious end up bothering you the next day that you went along with the partying. Okay fast forward even more. So you're an adult you end up cheating on your wife and having sex at work with a co worker. So your concious really bothers you. Perhaps slightly less. And as you get older and older it seems like as if when some kind of sin arrises it's as if you've been exposed to situations like that so many times, even if you didn't fall for it, but that it no longer bothers you. it's like as if when people get older they have a much thicker sink and concious than say a kid. So I'm trying to understand if that's a normal process of life? Or should you still feel as innocent and having your concious working to convict you just as much at age 70 as it did at age 7? I guess the reason I ask is that I'm only in my 30's. I've never done anything majorly wrong. But I think I've been exposed to so much garbage over the years, some of the sin I've ended up falling too at times, that now it really takes quit a bit for my concious to star bugging me. So I'm not sure what's up with that. Is that just a normal progression of life or is that something that needs careful attention?

There was a short time when in my teens when I tried to ignore the concious heart, but it didnt work.
I believe if one is not in Jesus, the concious is not heard because of the hardened heart.
But, in Jesus, the concious has become stronger and stronger as Ive grown older, in fact it can be a bit of a nag sometmes.
Simply becasue Jesus brings the will of God Our Father in us, and perfects this.
Just trust in Jesus, He will bring the voice inside and in mind that God desires.

God bless
pickles

 

[resurrection33]

I was wondering, how exactly does your conscious work as you get older? What I mean by this is for example. When you're a young child, if you see something bad on tv like someone shooting someone else it strikes emotion in your. Your concious screams, don't watch this. Then say you get older, your in your teens, you got to a party, people are drinking, or doing drugs. You fall to peer pressure and do it, and your concious end up bothering you the next day that you went along with the partying. Okay fast forward even more. So you're an adult you end up cheating on your wife and having sex at work with a co worker. So your concious really bothers you. Perhaps slightly less. And as you get older and older it seems like as if when some kind of sin arrises it's as if you've been exposed to situations like that so many times, even if you didn't fall for it, but that it no longer bothers you. it's like as if when people get older they have a much thicker sink and concious than say a kid. So I'm trying to understand if that's a normal process of life? Or should you still feel as innocent and having your concious working to convict you just as much at age 70 as it did at age 7? I guess the reason I ask is that I'm only in my 30's. I've never done anything majorly wrong. But I think I've been exposed to so much garbage over the years, some of the sin I've ended up falling too at times, that now it really takes quit a bit for my concious to star bugging me. So I'm not sure what's up with that. Is that just a normal progression of life or is that something that needs careful attention?

The Lord is always speaking to us. Maybe we listen better when we get older.

 

[Abiding]

the conscience is merely the spirit of God in your soul.
It can be defiled, seared, disobeyed, or obeyed.
It can be cleansed also.

To not make your will follow the dictates of your soul "is" sin.
It is not your mind or your brain. That is to be renewed. It is not
the body either. Both bodily and mental faculties need to be subjected
to the conscience.

An offended conscience is its own reward as well as a clean conscience
is its own reward.

A clean conscience can have peace under whatever difficulties and condemnation
man can put on us.

To not follow the dictates of the conscience will give you headtrips no matter the
praise and approval you give yourself or get. While you defile your conscience.

An offended conscience can soon become seared, go numb, become useless.

Age means nothing. Actions and inactions do.

 

[Canadian36]

This was bothering me a few years ago, too. I was about 37-38 just like you. I was worried that maybe the world was turning me into an angry old man. I started wondering how my true personality in heaven is going to be like. Certainly it would not be angry, or old.

That got me thinking. If my personality in heaven is going to be a certain way why can't my personality now be more like that?

Well as you probably know you can't just change your personality. But your heart can be changed. I am a witness to that.

Your heart can become much more sensitive to everything. But there is only one way. Jesus Christ.

This kind of sums up my thoughts in some ways. Just seems like I've come to a point where I don't care about anything anymore. Like I actually use to care about wanting to be a successful business person, about meeting a wonderful woman to fall in love with and have a family. But now after the problems I've seen that come with business and the realization that there's only normal people out there, and not super-woman I just feel like I want none of it anymore. I mean what's the point, it seems like all you'd be doing is adding problems to your life. Like show me a rich guy who doesn't have a ton of problems in all different directions and I'll show you a miricle. It doesn't exist.

 

[Abiding]

This kind of sums up my thoughts in some ways. Just seems like I've come to a point where I don't care about anything anymore. Like I actually use to care about wanting to be a successful business person, about meeting a wonderful woman to fall in love with and have a family. But now after the problems I've seen that come with business and the realization that there's only normal people out there, and not super-woman I just feel like I want none of it anymore. I mean what's the point, it seems like all you'd be doing is adding problems to your life. Like show me a rich guy who doesn't have a ton of problems in all different directions and I'll show you a miricle. It doesn't exist.

Hey dont mistake your wisdom for a low down attitude. Having dreams
is a great thing. But those expectations in a fallen world can very well
be false expectations. You know that.

Romans 8:22-28
King James Version (KJV)
22For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

23And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

24For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

25But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

26Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

27And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.


I dont care much either accept the souls i can help and the hope of glory.