Listen!
Today's Three-minute Bible Study
Print, Study and Apply
Title: Listen!-------------------------------- Date: 3/25/01
Keywords:
"blood" "cry" "curse" "listen" "restless"
Welcome
to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual
temptation.
Passage: Genesis 4:10-12*
10. The LORD said, "What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries
out to me from the ground.
11. Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its
mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
12. When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you.
You will be a restless wanderer on the earth."
Questions
1. What did God urge Cain to do, that Cain had not been doing?
2. What was Cain's main occupation?
3. How did Cain's curse relate to his life's work?
Practical help
Cain was a farmer. The God-ordained consequences of his sin crashed in on
him in a big way. His pride and joy, the fruit of his labor, would no
longer come so easily. The field, in which he murdered his brother, would
no more give of itself freely the way it once did.
We can draw a corollary to sexual sin and pornography addiction. Every
person has a God-given need and desire to have intimate, sexual and
emotional relationships with another. If we are faithful to that urge, we
will see it blossom fruitfully in a committed, loving marriage relationship
with a life partner. If we pervert that drive by selfishly pursuing ways to
get personal gratification without the risk of vulnerability and openness
in relationship, then it will turn on us. Our family relationships, the
very thing we were built for, will no longer freely yield pleasure and
satisfaction and rest, because of the overhanging guilt and deception, and
the hiddenness and lies.
This story urges us to stop and listen, to open our eyes and ears to the
truth of the blackness and sin that has gripped our own hearts.
eXXit
homepage
Index of three-minute studies
Copyright 2001 by eXXit
*Scriptures are from The Holy Bible: New International Version © Copyright 1973,
1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. All rights reserved.