Genesis 4:6-7 “Then the Lord said to Cain,” Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it.”

Here we catch a glimpse of just how subtle sin can be. Cain knew the right way to bring an offering to his God. He would have seen it done before as had his brother, Able. In fact, he had probably even been involved in the process with his dad Adam many times before, but for some unknown reason this time after normally following his father’s ways he chose to ignore that instruction and do things differently. Cain decided he wanted to do things his way on his terms!

I another portion of scripture James 4:17 it says this – “the one who knows the right and good thing to do and does not do it, to them it is sin”. Paul also informs us in Rom 8:2 that there are two forces warring within us; the law of spirit and life and the law of sin and death.

We must realise that sin gains access to us when we fail to do what is right! This means Sin is waiting for an opportunity to ensnare us, and that opportunity is given to it when our lives take action in opposition to what the Word of God declares. Jesus said in John 8:32 “you will know the truth and the truth will set you free“. This statement brings with it the implication that Sin has opportunity to engage and master us in any area where we do not know the truth and act accordingly.

Some things to note about Sin:
• It’s alive
• It’s active
• It’s crouching at our door
• It’s spying on us watching and waiting

Like a deadly sniper silently waiting for his target to move out of cover- Sin waits for us to move out from under the supernatural covering and safety of obedience to the scriptures. It waits for us to choose our way over God’s way to live life- then, swiftly just like Cain, we can be taken out of the game!

We can make sure this doesn’t happen to us if we simply know what God has declared to be the right and true way of going about this life. We must choose to live in obedience to the scriptures if we don’t want to get taken out of the game of life!

My Prayer: Help me to know the scriptures and then obediently apply them to my life so that sin has no opportunity to take me out of the game!