The LORD said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.” Genesis 4:10
Sin entered the world and changed man’s relationship with God, but from the very beginning God provided a means of atonement shown by the sacrifice Abel presented. Cain made an offering also, but it was unacceptable to God. His bitter resentment festered and eventually he took vengeance upon his brother, mankind’s first murder.
Blood speaks. God knew what Cain had done and why he did it. The cries of Abel’s blood spoke death, an irreversible state. Cain’s choices and his consequences were death, complete and total disconnection from God.
Living blood, pulsing through our bodies, provides and sustains all we need to live. In contrast, blood spilled is death. In Jesus we find both a sacrifice of blood poured and a continuing source of life. He did not die. He lived!
Like Abel, Jesus was hated and murdered, but when His blood speaks, it says, “I love you and you can live!”
Happy Monday!
Gretchen