So Many Like Cain

In giving counsel to young people who want to be married, one solid piece of wisdom is: work on becoming the sort of person that the sort of person you’re interested in would be interested in. By way of analogy, work on becoming the sort of worshiper of God that the persons who hate God would want to hate.

In the course of time Able offered the firstborn of his flock and their fat portions to the Lord (Genesis 4:4). Cain also offered something. But the Lord didn’t accept his offering (verse 5), which made Cain angry, and so Cain killed his brother. Many years later the apostle John explained why: Cain was of the evil one, and he murdered Abel “because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous” (1 John 3:12, see also John 8:44).

Most of us will not get the devil’s direct attention, but we ought to worship in such a way that those who hate righteousness, who love the dark, who are sons of the devil, will not be pleased that God is pleased with us.

There is so much about Charlie Kirk and his assassination that I don’t know, that we may never know. Who tells the truth these days?

But we do know that Charlie Kirk told enough truth, with enough effectiveness, that his opponents decided arguments weren’t enough to stop him. For that matter, the thousands of people who have come out in support of the murderer, not the martyr, demonstrate that so many in this generation are angry with God. On the day of his murder a bar named a drink “Neck Shot” to celebrate. Someone else used AI to create a Charlie Kirk doll, slumped in a chair after being shot. This is like Cain. This is of hell.

We may not have the gifts or the platform of someone like Charlie Kirk, but we ought to worship our God and Father through the Lord Jesus Christ in such a way as all the powers of hell would wish that we’d be dead.