A clear conscience is the best protection

 

A clear conscience is the best protection

By Moschos Lagouvardos

"A clear conscience is the best protection". Christ, with his shed blood on the cross, cleansed our conscience. He accepted the cross innocently so that we could have a clear conscience and not fear death. His shed blood washed away the guilt of people.

I do not want to see it, the shed blood of Ignatius, writes the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, in his lament for his friend the bullfighter Ignatius Sánchez Mejías. Mejías was killed by the bull during the fight in the arena. How a guilty conscience can wash away consciences and grant eternal life. "And this is eternal life, that they might know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent." John 17:3.

"A clear conscience is the best protection," is the central idea in Rene Clare's film "Ten Little Indians." It is an adaptation of Agatha Christie's crime novel of the same name to the Cinema.

The well-known novelist wrote about criminals and accusations throughout her life and believed that the best protection for the innocent accused is his innocence.

The heroes of the play "Ten Little Indians," small perhaps because they cannot prove their innocence for the specific charge of murder that burdens them, without revealing other guilty acts. The only hope to convince of their innocence is the true confession. That is why defendants in court are not obliged to apologize.

Dostoevsky writes about the good hero Shatov in The Possessed: "He had a pure heart, one of those that you don't find every day. Very rarely have I encountered such honest spiritual warmth in a person. "Never, never will I renounce the highest hopes," he told me, while his eyes shone. "The work is essentially the metaphor of the Christian teaching "do justice in all goodness and truth.."

A reader once asked me, who is this quiet man who, with his innocence, is close to God, without guilt to torment him. Of the innocent who are unjustly accused, the Lord said, "See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father who is in heaven. His Son came to save the lost."

To share in the sufferings of Christ. My grandmother Vasiliki, in her suffering (she suffered from a stomach ulcer) said that she suffered the sufferings of Christ. The Apostle Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 1:6-7, "For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our intercession also abounds through Christ (...) as you share in the sufferings, so also in the intercession."

We experience the abandonment of Jesus in our own abandonment. Jesus is our abandonment. The reality is to be present. In Jesus we have been abandoned. When we pray, we pray for all people. No one can pray only for themselves or only for their own. God knows what needs each person has. man. We do not even know for ourselves what our true needs are.

When we cry to Jesus, in the Garden of Gethsemane, we do not cry for Jesus, we cry for ourselves. "Mortality and the loss of a person is a common human issue and that the bell tolls for all people, regardless of who dies."

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