Proverbs 3 commands us to acknowledge God in all our ways. Adam when confronted with his trespass couldn’t acknowledge responsibility for it. Instead, he moved from bias to blame and said “The woman you put here with me – she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
Blame won’t hold up. If you have eyes to see you could move to begin with God again in repentance. Adam could have leaned on God instead of Eve but Adam did not move quickly or hightail it to begin again with God. Adam moved quickly and immediately to blame.
Go a little further into the scripture. The next stage of sin unfolds. The curse has come. Cain and Abel bring a sacrifice to God. Cain’s sacrifice is of his own making.
He knows how to make it better – acceptable to God. Cain chooses being bitter over being better. God warns Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face down cast? 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 master you, but you must master it.”
Proverbs 3 promises God will warn us. God will give us a path of mastery in grace – a path of breakthrough. “God will direct our paths.”
Sin desires mastery over you. Bitterness will beget bloodshed in us as it did in Cain. That’s why Proverbs 3 calls us out of this cycle of violence when it says, “Be not wise in your own eyes. Fear the Lord and depart from evil.” It’s not all about you or me. The world doesn’t revolve around us. When it does someone goes down. Bloodshed moves us to a breaking point of judgment.
What has happened to all of us? We have sinned and sin has brought death to our lives. Now, we didn’t stop breathing when we first sinned. No, we died to who we were created to be – living, breathing signs of grace.
We died to living a spirit filled life. We got rooted in expressing our lives with its point of origin in sin. It’s now time to get things turned around. It’s time to focus on God’s point of origin for us: Jesus.
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