The Lord said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground. Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”
Genesis 4:10-12 NIV
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The blood of the slain brother ‘cries out to Me from the ground, says the Lord. Injustice always gets the attention of God. Nothing that we engage in in an unjust manner escapes His attention. When we act dishonestly against deserving people, when we trample on the poor, when we overlook the widows and the single mums, when we harass the orphans, we capture God’s attention for all the wrong reasons. Scripture screams out a loud reality for all of us to hear and understand…God fights for those treated unjustly. Here Cain was the offender while Abel was the offended. In the new testament the blood of another Man was also poured on the ground. However, this blood did not plead for vengeance but pleaded for mercy and forgiveness for all. Verses 11 and 12 give us a picture of God’s judgement on Cain after the murderous act. Cain was told that the ‘ground he works on will no longer yield crops for him’. He would inturn be a ‘restless wanderer’. God’s curse was on Cain and by extension his descendants. Whereas when Adam was banished from Eden, he was told that he would toil the ground for food, Cain’s curse was potentially more unbearable. God pronounced that even when he works on the ground it would ‘…no longer yield it’s crops for him!’ He would transform into a wanderer’…a man moving to and fro on the face of the Earth without any goal. His life would be full of activity but only vain activity…yielding no results. This is the place sin puts us. It puts us in a position of vanity. We tend to be active in many things, moving to and fro, left right and centre yet getting no results. Even if we achieve some results, they seem not to satisfy us. Sin holds us hostage. It holds us back from God’s perfect will for us.
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