I started all over with reading the Bible. The Word of Promise Audio Bible has this really neat playlist for reading the Bible in 365 days. Wow, it's so convenient in that I could choose to read the Bible in chronological or the whole Bible like it is. I'm running it in my mobile device which makes it even more portable for me to listen to the Word and follow along with my Bible. What's great is that it leaves me with a bookmark in that if I don't read the Bible then I could read again from where I left off and get to the 365th day mark of actually reading the Bible. Now, that's such a delightful blessing and discovery for me.
Genesis 4 leaves off from where Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden of Eden. They bore two sons Cain and Abel. It looks like the first detailed emotion of jealousy for mankind listed in the Bible in Genesis 4:5. Is it really God's fault for not accepting Cain's offering? That's something that leaves me thinking about human nature. Some people are just naturally better gifted at other things- like Bill Gates is better at making money better than anyone in the planet, or let's say the most beautiful and recognized person in the world happened to be your sibling and you were not that well-received by your parents, family, and friends compared to him or her. This leaves me thinking that it's normal for people to feel like they are going through a hard time.
God gave us an encouraging verse for us to remember, "If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it." - Genesis 4:7
We obviously failed, but it was from the shedding of Christ's blood on the cross and being resurrected with the story of love and ultimate sacrifice along with becoming God's child that Christians can take heart again in this world and lead others to this amazing and surpassing peace that can't be found anywhere in this world.
In Verse 16, it talks about how Cain went out from the presence of the Lord. I don't know if this means that Cain broke fellowship with God and chose to not enter heaven. In Verse 17, it talks about Cain getting intimate with his wife but did she come from Adam and Eve also? I don't think the Bible is really clear if God created more people from the dust like he did with the first man, Adam. I heard someone speculate that Adam and Eve had the most perfect genes and were thus able to live a very long life and reproduce with so much success and that their offspring would also go on to do the same. We can't intermarry our siblings today because the kids could end up with genetic deformities like it happened during the Egyptian rule of Pharaoh. The Pharaoh would marry one of his cousins or even sister, yuck! The kids had hemophilia, where the blood doesn't clot if the skin gets an open wound!
The chapter ends with saying that after Adam and Eve bore Seth, their third son- Seth's wife ended up bearing a son Enosh and that's where men began to call on the name of the Lord. The Bible talks a lot about calling on the name of the Lord, but I wonder if it means to pray to God and depend on Him for any circumstance we go through in our life. If would be great to learn more about that later on in the Bible.
