January 2, 2011

The Curse Can Get Worse
The ground became even more resistant to cultivation after the sin of Cain (Gen 4:12). It can always get worse! Indeed as man continued in his sin, it got much worse until God destroyed the earth with the flood. And yet, as hard as life gets, we get even harder. We see in Revelation 16:10-11 that man’s response to increased pain is to curse God and refuse to repent. It is interesting to me that Noah, although he was a “preacher of righteousness” (2Pe 2:5), did not succeed in recruiting any more humans to join him on the ark. We are unique in creation in our stubborn resistance of God.