Cain and Abel

I am going to be going through the whole book of Genesis and pointing out all of the parts that point to Jesus. Now, I'm not the greatest at doing this but I will try to do my best by the grace of God. Today we are in chapter 4 of Genesis. Looking at the story of Cain and Abel. This is the first recorded murder in the Bible so we have to take great detail in looking a these two people. The story of Cain and Abel is about two brothers that give an offering to God and God accepts one offering and not the other. So, Cain murders his brother out of rage. But, what we don't see is how this murder spells the Gospel out to us. Both of them go to God and present offerings but, Abel's offering is received by God and Cain's offering is not. It is because Abel brought the first portion of everything as the offering whereas Cain did not. So, Cain becomes mad and kills his brother. The best part of this is that God already knew what Cain planned on doing but still gave him a choice to decide what to do. And so we know that he murders Abel. Abel's blood cried out to God as Jesus' blood cleanses us while crying out on the cross to his father. Abel is just a depiction of how the blood of Christ washes us. We, you and me, are Cain killing Abel and Jesus out of our anger and discontent towards Jesus and each other. Now God in his mercy and love gives GRACE to Cain by allowing him to live as a restless wanderer on the earth. We are restless wanderers on this earth until we meet our savior Jesus Christ. Till next time let the peace of Christ dwell in you richly. 

The Fall

Hello everyone I said that my goal was to post something once a month. Now I have this constant urge to start writing again so, I'm not going to hold myself back. I'm going to be continuing on my new favorite thing to talk about the Old Testament. I want to focus on the book of Genesis. In the book of beginnings would be the best place to begin. Chapter three will be my main focus. This chapter is all about the Fall. At the end of the chapter we see the first sacrifice. It is never mentioned that God had to sacrifice an animal for the garments for Adam and Eve. But, if we think about this a little more we have to realize that this animal was most likely without blemish. That animal had to cover them from the nakedness that they were ashamed of. Not just that but the sins that they had committed. God covered them in more that one way. He covers us from our shame, our sin and our nakedness. This is just a foreshadow of Jesus. The one that cleanses us for all of those things. I think that the idea of God covering them from their nakedness is very important. We must try to be naked spiritually. He wants us to be free to be the people that he created us to be. Without that we are just covering ourselves in a mask. We are all participants in the grand masquerade party. But, God is asking us to come from behind the mask and come to the real party. The great banquet that Jesus talks about in Luke 14. 

Devotion Time

Recently I have found it extremely hard to get a consistent devotional time.  With two kids working full time and all of the many things that have to get done on an everyday basis. As I do this I am on my way to a job site and typing this on my phone. But, I have been having some of the most amazing God moments in my life these past few weeks. I have been having some of the greatest revelations about scripture. I have had the most amazing God moments are on my way to the gym in the morning and in the shower. Not to be funny or anything. I said all of that to say that what time you have can be redeemed if you open up the time to allow God to minister to you. Allow God to speak into your life in those cracks of your life that you don't think he can get into.