God knows.

“And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.”

God warned Cain about the consequences of his attitude to his brother. Cain ignored God and assumed that he could commit his crime without anyone knowing about it. After all, there were no witnesses to the crime so who would know what had happened? Well, God knows everything. Adam and Eve tried to hide after they sinned but God knew what had happened. He gave them the chance to acknowledge their sin but they chose the blame game. In this case Cain committed the crime but he tried to avoid the question that God asked him by trying to avoid responsibility. However, God knew exactly what had happened and He brought Cain face to face with his sin.

It is good for us to remember that the moment we choose to think about doing something we are opening the door to doing it. When we choose an activity we also choose the consequences, even if we don’t think about the consequence. When Cain chose to kill his brother, he chose everything that followed from that.

Sometimes we feel that people get away with crimes because they are never forced to pay the penalty. However, God sees the crime and unless a person confesses their sin, repents of their sin and believes in the Lord Jesus Christ they will spend eternity in hell. There is nothing more final than that. Every person who spends eternity in hell has made that choice when the choose to ignore God’s wonderful Grace as it was displayed at Calvary.

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(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)