READ: Genesis 4:1-7
If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin
lies at the door. Genesis 4:7
I was delighted when a mutual friend gave my neighbour a Bible. But my
neighbour told me she stopped reading it because she couldnt understand why
God would be so unfair as to reject Cains offering. After all, she said,
as a farmer, he simply brought to God what he had. Did God expect him to
buy a different kind of sacrifice? Sadly, she had missed the point.
It wasnt that God didnt like vegetables. Rather, He knew that Cains
offering was masking an unrighteous attitude. Cain wasnt fully committed to
God, as expressed by the fact that he wasnt living according to His ways.
Its easy to worship God on the outside while stubbornly keeping territory
from Him on the inside. Jude writes about outwardly religious people who use
religious activities to cover the reality of their sinful lives: Woe to
them! For they have gone in the way of Cain (Jude 11). We can faithfully
serve God, sing His praises, and give sacrificially to His work. But God
doesnt want any of that without our hearts.
Does the Lord take priority over our plans and dreams? Is He worth more than
the sin that tempts us? When we express to Him that He is more worthy than
anything or anyone else in our lives, its an offering He wont refuse.
Joe Stowell
Lord, may our worship and our praise,
From hearts surrendered to Your ways,
Be worthy offerings of love
For all Your blessings from above. Sper
God wont refuse a heart that is surrendered to Him.
If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin
lies at the door. Genesis 4:7
I was delighted when a mutual friend gave my neighbour a Bible. But my
neighbour told me she stopped reading it because she couldnt understand why
God would be so unfair as to reject Cains offering. After all, she said,
as a farmer, he simply brought to God what he had. Did God expect him to
buy a different kind of sacrifice? Sadly, she had missed the point.
It wasnt that God didnt like vegetables. Rather, He knew that Cains
offering was masking an unrighteous attitude. Cain wasnt fully committed to
God, as expressed by the fact that he wasnt living according to His ways.
Its easy to worship God on the outside while stubbornly keeping territory
from Him on the inside. Jude writes about outwardly religious people who use
religious activities to cover the reality of their sinful lives: Woe to
them! For they have gone in the way of Cain (Jude 11). We can faithfully
serve God, sing His praises, and give sacrificially to His work. But God
doesnt want any of that without our hearts.
Does the Lord take priority over our plans and dreams? Is He worth more than
the sin that tempts us? When we express to Him that He is more worthy than
anything or anyone else in our lives, its an offering He wont refuse.
Joe Stowell
Lord, may our worship and our praise,
From hearts surrendered to Your ways,
Be worthy offerings of love
For all Your blessings from above. Sper
God wont refuse a heart that is surrendered to Him.
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