"...No Longer Yield Its Strength for You..."
06/08/16 08:17
August 6, 2016
“…No Longer Yield Its Strength for You…”
Blessings folk!
Cain went his own way.
He chose to walk in rebellion before the Lord, even when the Lord had directly warned him.
Cain chose sin.
He then allowed the sin to grow and fester.
Sin led to more sin - murder.
God tells Cain that the blood of his brother Abel is crying to the Lord from the ground.
Then God says…
“…No Longer Yield Its Strength for You…”
Blessings folk!
Cain went his own way.
He chose to walk in rebellion before the Lord, even when the Lord had directly warned him.
Cain chose sin.
He then allowed the sin to grow and fester.
Sin led to more sin - murder.
God tells Cain that the blood of his brother Abel is crying to the Lord from the ground.
Then God says…
Gen 4:11-12
“Now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
“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.”
Cain is cursed from the ground.
What does this mean?
The Word tells us.
The ground would “no longer yield its strength for you”.
He would not be able to grow food.
The ground had received the blood of his brother…which he spilled.
Now, the ground would refuse to bring forth a harvest for him.
The result?
He would be a vagrant.
He would be a wanderer on the earth.
He would live “in the land of Nod”.
Rejecting the Word of the Lord brings forth horrid fruit.
Do it not.
Do as the Lord leads.