Overpowered...

OVERPOWERED…The voice of temptation can sure get loud at times, can’t it. How many times have we simply been overwhelmed by that voice, and yielded to the sheer force of it’s strength? It happens. Perhaps we need to look at where this voice gets its power…
“God spoke to Cain; why this tantrum? Why the sulking? If you do well, won’t you be accepted? And if you don’t do well, sin is lying in wait for you, ready to pounce, its out to get you, you’ve got to master it.” ~Gen. 4:6-7
We learn a lot from Eve’s temptation story. And here her first born son is again a battle with temptation. There is a lesson in that alone, in that every generation must face temptations voice. Here’s how it went down with Cain. God had made it clear how He wanted to be worshipped. Cain’s younger brother Abel did exactly what God wanted, but Cain wanted to worship in his ‘own way’. God wasn’t quite as fulfilled by Cain’s worship, as He was Abel’s. This irritated Cain deeply. And herein is the lesson. The verse above captures the exact moment where a door opened for temptations voice to flare up with power in Cain’s inner thought-life. Look closely at the words above, this voice was now strong enough to entrap Cain…to actually pounce on him. And that’s in fact exactly what happened. Within days, it spoke such evil into Cain’s mind that killing his brother actually seemed like a good idea. Wow! Temptation has been flaring up into power through the ages for the same reason. Doing things ‘our way’ is still how we become OVERPOWERED! ~verlon