Video: Let Your Conscience By Your Guide

The name SemperVerus® is Latin for Stay True. It’s based on the Bible verse 1 Timothy 4:16 (NLT) — “Keep a close watch on how you live and on your teaching. Stay true to what is right for the sake of your own salvation and the salvation of those who hear you.”

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The third element of the five SemperVerus components is BE, which emphasizes the importance of prioritizing integrity, honesty, and general uprightness in your life. It reads:

III. Be: developing rich personal leadership character of exemplary moral and ethical quality.

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The fifth element of the five SemperVerus components is DO, the working out in your everyday life of the first four qualities. It reads:

V. Do: resolving to intentionally and skillfully act to accomplish positive and fruitful outcomes.

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In the decisions we face every moment of every day, we stay true when we follow the Holy Spirit in our lives and keep the SemperVerus Brotherhood/Sisterhood virtues front-and-center in our mind:

  • love
  • optimism
  • peacemaking
  • patience
  • humility
  • valor
  • chivalry (courtesy)
  • gentility (kindness)
  • steadfastness
  • duty (faithfulness)
  • integrity
  • generosity (goodness)
  • self-control
  • persevering strength
  • discernment of right from wrong
  • purity
  • honor.

[ Read the SemperVerus article, Every Small Decision Leads to Winning or Losing in Spiritual Warfare ]

Another way of saying, “Stay True when you act,” is “Listen to your conscience (your moral sense).” The Bible mentions our conscience several times, as in Acts 24:16 when the Apostle Paul says, “I strive always to keep my conscience clear before God and man.”

One catchy way to remember to listen to our conscience is to wear the official SemperVerus® inspirational waterproof flexible rubber wristband every day. Another way is to keep in mind the song Jiminy Cricket sang in Disney’s original production of Pinocchio: Always Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide !

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Remind yourself of those core values to Stay True every moment of the day by wearing the official SemperVerus® inspirational waterproof flexible rubber wristband and carrying the SemperVerus Brotherhood/Sisterhood card in your wallet. Learn more here.


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