CRUX Daily: The Fall Part 3

Read: Genesis 4

Reflect: Read Genesis 4:7 again. What kind of sin are you allowing to take rule in your life?

Request (Prayer): Lord, show me what sin I am allowing to take rule in my life and then kill it.

Genesis 4:7 says that sins desire is to take you captive. It wants to consume you and take over everything that you do. Sin is what took over the body of Cain as he plotted and killed his brother, Abel. Sin took Cain captive by first, consuming his mind. That is where the idea of sin begins. It begins with you wanting it and desiring it, and that all starts in your thoughts.

Have you allowed sin to take captive your thoughts? Do you make decisions based upon how you feel and what you want, or do you base your decisions upon what God’s Word tells you to? We can easily allow ourself to be a slave to sin, but you must make the conscious effort to not sin.

That is why David wrote in the 119th Psalm, “Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against you.” Not only did David hide it in his heart, but he allowed the Word of God to infiltrate his mind, and that caused David to want more and more of Christ every day. Is that something you desire? Pray today, Lord help me to meditate on Your word and to be consumed by You.