We know nothing about Cain’s
boyhood, but we are keenly aware of some things in regard to his adulthood. We
know first of all that he was religious; unfortunately, it was a false
religion. Someone has said that Cain’s problem was that he substituted reason
for revelation, beauty for blood, trying for testing, and feelings for facts.
Cain was religious but lost.
We also know that Cain was a
rebel. He had a spirit of intolerance and insolence. He is the one who asked,
“Am I my brother’s keeper?”
The Bible cautions us against
going the way of Cain, in Jude verse 11. So I challenge you to beware of the
religion and way of Cain, for he is the father of all who put “creed before
Christ.”
In his book, Gaily the Troubadour, published in 1936, Arthur Guiterman wrote the
following poem:
“First
dentistry was painless;
Then bicycles were chainless
And carriages were horseless
And many laws, enforceless.
Next, cookery was fireless,
Telegraphy was wireless,
Cigars were nicotineless
And coffee, caffeineless.
Soon oranges were seedless,
The putting green was weedless,
The college boy hatless,
The proper diet, fatless.
Now motor roads are dustless,
The latest steel is rustless,
Our tennis courts are sodless,
[But worst of all] Our new
religions, godless.”
How true!! The way of Cain
What to do:
✞ Do not just be religious; be born again.
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