We are not to implicitly trust our conscience. Whenever our conscience condemns us (1 John 3:20), we must remind ourselves that God is greater than our conscience(heart), and he knows everything. Yet, it also follows that, when our conscience acquits us, God still is greater than our conscience, and still he knows everything. Once in a while, we might not feel assured of our righteousness (that righteousness that is not by works of the law, but rather by faith in Jesus Christ). In the event that our hearts/conscience condemns us, we can trust that God has accepted us. But we should also beware that just so, we might live in an imagined security that we have been accepted, when in fact God condemns us. Our assurance of faith, of righteousness, and of salvation doesn’t rise or fall with what our hearts tell us. Let us, instead, lean in on the Word of God, and let it be that which either acquits us, or condemns us.