SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 03/06/2006
My Worship Time Focus: Cain’s Wandering
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Genesis 4:11-15
Message of the verse: “11 ‘Now you are cursed from the ground,
which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. 12 ‘When you cultivate the ground, it will no
longer yield its strength to you; you will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the
earth.’ 13 Cain said to the LORD, ‘My punishment
is too great to bear! 14 ‘Behold, You
have driven me this day from the face of the ground; and from Your face I will
be hidden, and I will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever
finds me will kill me.’ 15 So the LORD
said to him, ‘Therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him
sevenfold.’ And the LORD appointed a sign for Cain, so that no one finding him
would slay him.”
After the
murder of Able by Cain God spells out the punishment for Cain, which is that he
will never again be able to farm the soil in order to get his living. God told Cain that he would be a wanderer on
the earth; he would not have a home to live in and be able to stay in one
place. This punishment was a great
burden on Cain and he spoke to the Lord about it, but he never repented of his sin of killing his brother. Cain has a slippery slope down the ladder of
sin, and it can be seen that he was a child of the devil.
All that
Cain did in his life was worthless, for after he left home and had children and
their children had children and so on until the flood they would all perish, as
the only one’s to survive would be the offspring of his brother Seth who would
be born of Adam and Eve to replace Able whom Cain had murdered. Cain was afraid that someone would kill him,
but God put some kind of a sign or mark on him so that if anyone would kill him
vengeance would be taken out sevenfold.
There are some questions here that
are not answered, but one can make some reasonable guesses for their
answers. Where did Cain get his
wife? I believe that because the gene
pool was much purer at that time and one could actually marry their sister and
eventually their cousins without any type of bad affects like would happen
today if this would be done. Why was not
Cain killed for killing his brother?
Capital punishment had not been established at this time, but would be
later by God, and it has never been taken away by God to this day.
It is not until the time when God
was dealing with the children of Israel that He told them that you can marry up
to a second cousin before trouble would happen.
Remember that Sarah was a half sister of Abraham and there were no
issues with Isaac. This is another
reason why evolution is something that cannot be true, but as we look at
de-evolution we can see that that surely is taking place. Take your car, for example and set it outside
for say 20-30 years and see if it gets better or if it becomes a piece of
rusted junk.
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: All of
Cain’s problems began when he fell to his temptations and did not trust the
Lord to get him past those temptations without sinning. Temptation is not a sin and 1Cor. 10:13 comes
into play here: “No temptation has
overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not
allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will
provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.”
The Word of God has been challenging to my heart as I have
read it today.
My Steps of Faith
Today: Continue to trust the Lord to
direct my path and to also teach me contentment.
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