God's warning system

Greetings:
In the last couple of days we've heard a lot about winter weather advisories and warnings.
But did we know In the Lord’s perfect design, each of us has two built-in warning systems working to keep us from danger and harm.
The first is pain. Most of us think of pain as a bad thing, but actually it’s a gift from God. You know something is physically wrong when your body hurts and feels pain.
Pain is also God’s way of protecting us from destroying ourself.
I was recently reading about Hansen's Disease, or what is often called leprosy.
Long ago people believed that leprosy ate away a person’s extremities, ate his fingers, his nose and ears, his chin, his toes, feet, and legs. It was only in the 1800s that biologists discovered that leprosy doesn’t consume the body at all.
Instead, it destroys nerves and the sense of touch. And without the ability to feel the pressure or pain, a person an literally wear off the nose, ears, chin, and  forehead by scratching because they are without ever feeling the damage they’re doing.
Without the basic ability to feel pain, we’re able to do incredible damage to your body, and we’re open to all kinds of other physical dangers. Without that built-in warning system, we slowly destroy ourself. Pain protects us.
From a spiritual perspective, our other built-in warning system— our conscience — does the same thing. Just as pain warns us of physical danger to our body, our conscience screams at us about a violation of a moral law.
But our conscience alone can’t save us. It’s only a mechanism—a warning device. And unless it has been guarded and trained, it won’t be able to alert us to spiritual danger. A confused, and twisted conscience won’t be able to protect us —in fact, it could actually lead us to sin and corruption.
Our conscience won’t function properly unless it has been informed by reality and trained like a muscle. It needs to be developed and protected and sharpened.
If we’re going to live the pure, holy life the Lord has commanded you to live, we need a conscience tuned to his perfect standard. And then we need to listen to it carefully and heed its warnings.
In 2 Corinthians 6:1 we read, “Receive not the grace of God in vain".
Be smart and walk wisely in God's grace.
God wants us to enjoy skating on his lake of joy while we are on this earth, but he also wants us to keep away from the area marked "Thin Ice". This is simple to do, for he has clearly marked the warning signs in the Bible.

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