Citizen Cain

Citizen Cain's offerings were never pleasing to God because his heart was impure. His heart lacked humility. He was full of hubris, constructing towers to the heavens, his Xanadu. His name was plastered everywhere in large gold letters, idolatry for the world to see. If God could not love him, or so he was convinced, he would rival God. 

Citizen Cain would show God. 

He would play God on earth. He would demand fealty. He would demand offerings and oaths of allegiance. He would demand NDAs. He would persecute his brothers, jealous of God's love for them, not understanding that God's love is available to everyone. But Citizen Cain spurned God. His Xanadu grew, a blackened "white" house of vanity. 

A palace of degradation and depravity. He thought he rivaled God now. Talk about a lack of perspective. He thought he was above the law--that he was the law--but he was nothing. His continuing striving only proved it. Abels abound, awaiting slaughter. Innocence must be destroyed. He belittles everyone he can in an insatiable and futile quest for power. 

He can never rival God. Oh, but the damage he can do while trying. We thought we had escaped the ancient stories. But the stories of human folly, glory-seeking and grandiosity are still with us. Humanity has never changed. The old weaknesses are worse now because we have spurned God. Say your prayers, my friends. Accountability awaits.