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What does Under Conviction mean?

I remember when I was going to church and listening to my Christian co-workers and a past friend about "conviction". I am now reading people mention the word here and sometimes on another site. I kind of understand what it means but I get confused about it. One reason ,I have a past friend who used to always steal from me. In appearance she seemed to be the holy of holiest of Christians. Eery time I would catch her stealing she would put on this crying defence and tell me that God forgave her that if I didn't , well that was my problem not hers. Truth is I forgave her every single time. She stole big from me. She would even go to ministries and give sob stories about my hardships and collect things from them on my behalf ( I did not give her permission to do this) and then if it was nice things she would tell me it looked like the cats drug it in. Later I find out these things the cat drug in were brand new straight from the stores and sitting all pretty in her home. I finally had enough , she had ripped me off more than I could count. She again cried and told me that she is happy I mentioned it because she was under conviction and she was sorry. She then again blurted God forgave her and if I didn't then so be it. Meanwhile while she was telling me this. She at the same time remained ripping me off with the cell phone bill. I gave her a chance to come clean " she didn't know I found out the truth" and she LIED and lied in front of another Christian. . After her calling me a liar and then me proving it was her lying and stealing again. She later told me that if God wanted her to pay me back He woud convict her. She said she felt good about her decision because she wasn't convicted. What the heck///.

Does conviction and having a feeling mean the same thing? If so I've been told many times that the bible says to not go by feelings.

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Permalink Reply by ribbon on July 18, 2013 at 11:40am

Oh yes the sting of a family member.... ouch. I hope you get there soon.

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Permalink Reply by Seek on July 18, 2013 at 11:44am

I asked her late last night if she would call or text this morning just to be sure I was ok. My BP was way up and I've never dealt with that before. My chest was fluttering and so I was worried. I'm in the middle of nowhere and if anything happens, my son is alone there and how long before someone would know? She skirted around it, claiming she might not remember and had too many reminders on her phone to keep up, etc. I just said never mind and texted my brother and asked if he would and he had no problems with it. All it was was a simple checkup call. She wanted me to instead, if I was that worried, to get my son out of bed and drive there in the dark about 20 minutes after having taken a Benadryl. :-(

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Permalink Reply by ribbon on July 18, 2013 at 11:54am

She should do what I have to do... write on her hand. Stick notes by where she sits or works the most. I know this isn't what moms should do to think of their kids but if she is saying she wont remember this is what she should do. It is sad that she didn't automatically just do it. My kids always called me over protective. Maybe your mom needs some kind of vitamins to keep her focused.