Bitterness – Martine Brice

An untamed heart can cause great damage. God knowing this has said MY SON, GIVE ME YOUR HEART AND LET THINE EYES OBSERVE MY WAYS, (Proverbs 23:26). God knows that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth will speak and actions will be taken so before it got out of hand He asked to reign over the inferior organ that could lead to damnation. He knows also that that same organ once tamed can become a superior strength to its owner. We learned of what happened to an untamed heart on the land where God had led Adam and Eve. Cain’s offering was not sincere but Abel’s was more acceptable. Anytime you’re doing a task, if it can’t be done right it’s best to not begin, really; especially if this task is to be an offering to Almighty God! Don’t be sloppy in what you offer God because you never know just how far the results might lead. Envy grew to hatred turned Cain’s heart to commit murder. Although God knew what happened still He gave Cain a chance to come clean in asking him “where’s your brother?” In his insolence, he boasted after committing such a crime and served God with a question rather than an answer. (Have you ever noticed how boastful people really become after faltering, as if that will rectify the gruesome action, it doesn’t. It’s all a front for show, demonstration of wasted time taken away from repenting really! It’s that lapse of time where the conscience could’ve waken up from its err if given the opportunity but that time is robbed and occupied by egotistical behaviors). In good creole understanding Cain said to God DID YOU GIVE HIM TO ME TO HOLD FOR YOU? Usually insolent kids with no speech formalities would answer with such an insultive response. He didn’t have any remorse after his act. To him life just went on as if it was normal to kill his brother. (Let us be reminded of one of the commandments that later came is THOU SHALT NOT KILL. Only God who created reserves the right to take a life in His own time as He sees fit, but it’s not man’s bid to do, and no you’re not helping God by killing someone)! Anyway, Abel wasn’t going to remain silent in acceptance of a wrongful death. He did what no dying person before him had done since he was the first to physically die. In doing this though he set an example for you and me to know and understand that we need not just take the injustice as it comes, we don’t have to. We can put in our request before God! That blood that flows through your vein has a voice even as it flows out of you. Providing you’ve done right by God, you’ll find that voice activated quicker when most needed. Abel found his voice activated even in death and put in his request to God as he took his last breath. Don’t wait until you’re in Abel’s position to put in your request. The best time to make your request known to God is now while the blood is warmly flowing through your veins. It’s your right to do so. You’ve been given access through God’s word when He said to “…Pray in the Spirit on ALL occasions with ALL kinds of prayers and REQUESTS, with this in mind, be alert and ALWAYS keep on praying for all the Lord’s people, (Ephesians 6:18).
THEREFORE, I AM MY BROTHER’S KEEPER, YOU ARE YOUR BROTHER’S KEEPER, WE ARE OUR BROTHER’S KEEPER! What happens to one person good or bad can have either a positive or negative reaction and or effect in our lives because we’re connected by earth and breath. Don’t you see, on many levels you’re me and I’m you because we’re in this school called life together. My achievements won’t just make my teacher look good but it will make you who supported me along the way look good too before the Master. He may end up entrusting you with greater things because you didn’t look down on your post as you boosted me in achieving. Surely, had Cain united with Abel instead, the outcome would have been different and we might’ve had a different lesson to speak of. Have you noticed though that Abel’s request didn’t go up to God in vengeance with eye for eye? Abel didn’t desire that his brother died too for what he did. He just wanted this action to be corrected. God sanctioned Cain and prevented him from receiving the same fate. Many people would have agreed he deserved the same but what good is a returned deadly action without a sincere rectification preventing the reoccurrence of such action to another innocent soul? Dear sons of Cain, when oh when will we mend our ways and refrain from killing our brothers and sisters? We die inside a little also with such actions until one day we’ve lost all humanity! However will you stand in account for the innocent blood shed? How will you remit the costly soul of which you still lack understanding of its worth? There is reserved a time and hour for retribution. When standing before God’s throne in judgment what will our excuses be for killing and tormenting other souls? Will excuses even stand judgment then? Before the sun sets over our lives, let us make ALL sorts of our requests known before God in prayer and supplication with thanksgiving for we really labor not in vain. If the change tarries in coming, the next generation surely will benefit in the coming change, if we remain steadfast and immovable in seeking rectification. Be mindful in knowing God will not be late in answering your prayer requests! Let us pray AND watch over our own behaviors, actions, desires and even thoughts that murder body and spirit! Let us set human dignified boundaries for ourselves to watch over self and others in all Godliness because WE ARE OUR BROTHER’S KEEPER! GODLY LOVE!
Genesis 4:8-10
04-23-2021
MBM-Tine Brice

There is such a thing as giving the greatest gift. Although the concept is different for each person, the fact still remains that each one can present another with a great gift. I’m sure you’re asking within how can one gift another the greatest, it’s quite simple. It’s something that parents often do for their kids. Search your mind, soul and conscience for that which you feel you lacked growing up then lather your heart’s choice of being with the abundance. By looking at each individual you can often but not always determine what lack existed or still does. People tend to want to provide for others what they lacked as if there’s a twisted since of self-accomplishment once achieved. It’s as if, if this one thing isn’t dealt with or tended to in their lives or lifetime then their growth is stunted. Growing is within the natural order of things so to stunt one’s growth is to defy what ought to be. Defiance can only bring about disruption, resentment, bitterness, chaos, unsettlement within the being and indifference. To deal with the lacks is to strip these negativities of their power over one’s life. So deal with that which you lack in the most sensible way possible. Lather someone with that positive thing which you lacked and feel replenished doing so. It’s like reversing psychology on self to improve on your deprivations. Twisted but good! The greatest gift to self is to gift the lack to another! You grow in doing so, trust me, you’ll meet a newer, better version of you, you didn’t know existed! So go ahead and convert all your lacks into gifts and just hand them out! It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give to a hurting world.

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