Much has been written about Cain and Abel. The perfect and accepted sacrifice vs the unaccepted one. According to the commentary that I use, it states that God was all along looking for an animal sacrifice and informed them and because their sacrifice (offering) to God was to satisfy their sin, the Cain offering was not accepted. I think while there is some merit to that the crux of the matter was the heart and the attitude. Maybe Cain should have asked God what He wanted since we do know that they dialogued with Him verbally. This is what it said: The writer describes sin as if it is a wild animal. That ‘animal’ was bending down low on the ground and it was waiting. It was ready to jump suddenly onto Cain. And then it would catch Cain and it would overcome him. In 1 Peter 5:8, Peter writes this: ‘The devil is your enemy. He is like a lion. A lion walks about and he makes a loud noise. He walks about because he is looking for someone to eat.’ God wanted Cain to do the right thing. Cain too could kill an animal as a sacrifice to God. Then God would be pleased with Cain. But Cain refused to live in the way that God wanted him to live. Cain’s attitudes were still wrong.
Besides killing his brother, Cain compounded his actions by lying to God - thus magnifying the sinful nature of man. Jesus recognized our sinful nature and stated that even the act of thinking of these crimes would be the same as committing them. God did punish Cain and still Cain thought his actions were not deserving of the punishment. However the lineage of Adam continues and has been tainted with sin ever since. Thus the need for a savior - Jesus Christ!
Prayers and thanksgiving for those who are still recovering from the aftermath of HI. Looking forward to heading down to FL tomorrow night and seeing my home away from home! Hopefully GG can join us!
Praise for today: Halleluia thine the Savior - revive us again!
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