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An Awakened Conscience (John 8:7–9)
The man who commits sin and imagines he can go his own way and be happy if only his sin is not discovered, makes the fatal mistake of leaving his conscience out of the account. No man can tell when conscience will rise up and shake the accusing finger in his face, and make him condemn himself. This was illustrated when a young thief who had stolen a package of diamonds worth over $1,000 walked into the West Twentieth Street Police Station, in New York City, and confessed himself a thief in order to save a girl who was held for the crime. That mysterious thing we call conscience would not let him sleep or enjoy his stolen goods in peace, but took him by the throat and marched him to jail for his misdeeds. It was like the case of the men who were about to stone the woman to death for adultery, and Jesus said to them: “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her” (John 8:7). And John, recording the incident, says: “They which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one” (John 8:9).
AMG Bible Illustrations, Bible Illustrations Series (Chattanooga: AMG Publishers, 2000).
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