Wrong Wilfulness
“So the LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen? 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 4:6-7 NKJV https://www.bible.com/114/gen.4.6-7.nkjv Even as the fallen seed of the depravity of sin, the visitation of God to warn Cain against the dominance of evil shows the supremacy of human wilfulness in controlling his wellness. Wrongfulness is not really the problem of the sinful man: his depravity is inherited. The bane of the deprived heart is the wilfulness to ignore all possible warnings against the future doom and the consequences of sin. Although Cain was in sin and had even already sinned, God still warned him against the wilfulness to commit himself into honouring the future invitation to sin: “And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it”. Truly, no deprived...