Both Cain and Abel came from the same parents, with the same upbringing, the same God… both knew God… both gave offerings to God…

“The LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering, but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor.” Genesis 4:4-5.

Then the LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it.”

God does not leave Cain in his sin. God graciously rebukes Cain, but even with this grace, Cain rejects the living God to pursue his own interests. This is humanity at its lowest.

The story of Cain and Abel represents two sides of the human condition. Dignity and depravity. We know the good we ought to do but so easily choose that which is depraved. Why? Why? why? We are deceived, we are selfish, we are depraved… we are dead spiritually… we know God, but we choose to reject him…

Why? because we chose to.

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