Memorise: And Cain said unto the LORD, my punishment is greater than I can bear. Genesis 4:13
Do you know that besides physical death there is also material death? One of the most dreaded and avoided passages in the Bible is Deuteronomy 28:15-68. Ironically, one of the best loved and most read passages of Scriptures come from the first 14 verses of that same chapter. People want to read about God’s blessings but they never want to be told about the curses. However, it is very instructive to read the passages that talk about the curses too, so that you can discern if your life is manifesting any of the curses and to seek spiritual help if that is the case. These passages also help us to know what the God who blesses His obedient children can do to those who disobey Him. It is also good to take a careful study of those who were placed under a divine curse in the Bible, so that you can steadfastly avoid their errors.
One repercussion for
disobeying God is material death brought about by several agents of death.
According to Deuteronomy 28:15-68, for the act of disobedience, the disobedient
fellow shall be cursed everywhere he or she goes. That means, spiritually, such
a fellow is wearing the garment of curses! When a person is cursed by God,
wherever he or she goes, people will just find themselves opposing him or her,
even without real provocation. Divine curses attract other types of curses to
the fellow who is cursed. Also, when an individual is under a divine curse, the
curses that men placed on him will require no demonic power to make them work;
they will just ride on the existing cursed climate surrounding the fellow. It
is a terrible thing to come under a divine curse! If you are under a divine
curse, do everything possible today to come out of it! For a fellow under a divine
curse, everything God has made will begin to fight against that fellow. Friends
will turn against him or her. Opportunity will shut its door. Good health will
take its flight. Promotion will be on vocation. Success will run away. The life
of that individual will attract all kinds of evils: disappointments, unending
struggles, frustrations, sorrow, losses, wasted efforts, and every unpleasant
experience. When Cain was cursed by God in Genesis 4:11-12, he understood the
spiritual implication of this and he immediately began to pray for divine
mercy. If he did not do this, everything and everyone would have worked against
him. Does it appear like everyone and everything is fighting against you? Find
out if you are under a divine curse and immediately go to God in repentance and
ask for His mercy.
Action Point: Are you under
a divine curse and you desire to be free? You have placed under a curse and ask
for God’s mercy.
Read: Genesis 4:1-15 And
Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have
gotten a man from the Lord. 2 And she again bare his brother Abel.
And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 3 And
in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the
ground an offering unto the Lord. 4 And Abel, he also brought of the
firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had
respect unto Abel and to his offering: 5 But unto Cain and to his offering
he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. 6 And
the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy
countenance fallen? 7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and
if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his
desire, and thou shalt rule over him. 8 And Cain talked with Abel his
brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up
against Abel his brother, and slew him. 9 And the Lord said unto
Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's
keeper? 10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's
blood crieth unto me from the ground. 11 And now art thou cursed from the
earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy
hand; 12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto
thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. 13 And
Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. 14 Behold,
thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face
shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it
shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me. 15 And
the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance
shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain,
lest any finding him should kill him.
Bible in one year: Luke
10-11, Isaiah 28:1-13
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