The temptation to so many of us when we try to approach God is to think that because God has been dealing with us--because He has been taking steps to bring us into something more of Himself and has been teaching us deeper lessons of the Cross--He has thereby set before us new standards, and that only by attaining to these can we have a clear conscience before Him. No! A clear conscience is never based upon our attainment; it can only be based on the work of the Lord Jesus in the shedding of His Blood.