01/15/2023
PT- 12 CHANGING ME IN 2023!
"If you do well [believing Me and doing what is acceptable and pleasing to Me], will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well [but ignore My instruction], sin crouches at your door; its desire is for you [to overpower you], but you must master it.” Cain talked with Abel his brother [about what God had said]. And when they were [alone, working] in the field, Cain attacked Abel his brother and killed him".. Genesis 4:7-8 AMP
This year let us strive to avoid sin and it's consequences. God had not accepted Cain's offering so he became jealous, angry and depressed. Jealousy's end is always murder!
God tells Cain that if he changes his ways, he will indeed be accepted. But if he does not change, sin—pictured as a lion crouched just outside the door of his heart, would spring to action.
God is describing sin's persistent nearness; it is always ready to extend its dominance by increasing iniquity. Sin strives to pile iniquity upon iniquity, even as one lie usually produces another to keep a facade of deception from crumbling.
God's warning is clear. Repent of sin at once, or it has a powerful tendency to grow and thoroughly dominate the one who does nothing to stop it. This thought is reinforced in the final sentence "And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it."
IN 2023 LET US RULE OVER "IT" BEFORE IT RULES OVER US!