Your Sin Will Find You Out

Genesis 4:9-12 ESV
“Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” He said, “I do not know; am I my brother’s keeper?” And the Lord said, “What have you done?

The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to me from the ground. And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.  When you work the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength…”

God asked Cain, “Where is Abel your brother.” God knew the answer to this question. He asked Cain because He wanted to give him the opportunity to confess his sin and start to do the right thing.

As a result of Abel’s death, Cain’s life was changed forever. Abel’s blood cried out to God and demanded justice. God told Cain, “you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.”

God used the ground that Cain knew so well to grow crops to be the very thing that Cain would have to think about, not as a matter of guilt. Guilt is not of God, but as a matter of conscience. As humans, we are forgiven by God but our conscience is designed to keep us from falling and to not make the same mistakes that we have made in the past.

This was the first murder. I’m not even sure Cain knew the implications of this act. Cain learned God knows the thoughts and intentions of our hearts, and we all learn, that we can be sure our sins will find us out

Prayer:
Father, I can’t even imagine what it must have been like to see man go so wrong. You said when you created them, it was good. But sin crept in and slew man. Thank You Father for Grace through Your Son.