Sin Lurks

“Sin is a demon lurking at the door. His urge is toward you, yet you can be his master.” 

Genesis 4:7

The story of Cain and Abel shows us what pride and resentment can lead to. Cain and Abel both made offerings to God. God looked with favor on Abel’s offering but not on the fruit of the soil that Cain brought Him. We do not know the exact reason why and can only speculate, but if only Cain asked God why and learned from it, we could have learned too! Instead, Cain attacked his only brother and killed him. 

The enemy is very cunning and as the verse says, he lurks at the door. He is always waiting to attack and destroy us. We won’t know when, how or from where, but we can be sure, there are always plans afoot to destroy our families, our church, our country, any good there is anywhere. 

We must stay vigilant, as it says many times in the Bible. And we must never lose hope. God is victorious. He is in control and He waits with us. We wait for evil to expose itself. Although evil thrives in the darkness of lies and deception, it cannot help but expose itself because of its pride and arrogance. Evil likes to make a display of its power and all its minions, all those who fall into its trap. But when it exposes itself, we can be sure it is doomed to destruction. 

We need only to look to history to see how evil men enabled by sycophants, rose to power and notoriety, only to be destroyed by their own greed and ambition. But see the Church, with enemies without and within, has stood for centuries as Jesus promised. “Now I say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and all the powers of hell will not prevail against it.” Matthew 16:18

Let us stay in the light, at the side of God, and wait with Him, and fight with Him.