Sin Lies At The Door

After doing my morning reading  in God's Word, I decided to write again in my old journal. When I opened to the last page that I had written on and looked at the last words I had written, it was concerning the same scripture I am now reading again and the last entry was from November of 2016, a year and a half ago.

The scripture quoted from that date was: Genesis 4:7 "...sin lies at the door. And it's desire is for you, but you should rule over it." This was a discussion God was having with Cain before he killed Abel. God had rejected his grain offering, not because it was grain and not the animial offering of Abel, but because of the sinful life Cain was embracing and holding in his heart. Right before these words, God asks Cain, "Why are you angry? Why has your countenance fallen?"

Cains anger comes from the "sin" in his heart, the knowledge that he was living a sinful life. He was angry because he knew that God knew this also and  that was why He rejected his offering. Once sin is welcomed into the heart, it grows and this is why Cain killed Abel.

The sin in mankind is unavoideble as long as we live on earth,  but we can "rule over it." with God's guidance. God destroyed the earth with a flood, but he kept Noah, his sons and all the wives and with these, sin, although sin  "ruled over" by these people who walked with God, stayed on earth. Genesis 8:21 says: "I will never again curse the ground for man's sake, although the imagination of man's heart is evil from youth...."

We must allow God's Holy Spirit to give us the desire and power to rule over the sin in this world, including the sin that lies at our door. As the world changes, that door just gets bigger and harder to guard, But God is bigger that all that may come against us.