Sincere trust towards God is something some of us are taught in infancy by parents or others. Yet we probably would not have any possibility of being taught this trust if it were not for Jesus' sacrificial death laying down His life to create the second covenant. The Jews in their first covenant have been blessed with acceptance by God under certain conditions as recorded in Deuteronomy. Yet we who were far off outside this covenant could not have hoped to be accepted by God once we had given in to temptation and walked in a path of enmity against God. We would be enemies who even if we wanted to trust God we would know we had in our past events been against Him or ignored Him so would have no reason to hope in His help and comfort or salvation. So this new covenant made a new reconciliation made possible by Jesus' shed blood to a place where trust is part of a new possible attitude toward God and trust He will accept and save and hear prayers. We have to thank God He opened the way.
The picture is there of Cain who would have been accepted and had a chance to live in trust toward God if he had overcome the evil crouching at the door as he thought of killing Abel but since he succumbed he blew it with God and departed in disgrace. We would be like that if it were not for the sacrifice Jesus made of Himself. We would start life well enough but likely fail to keep strong and sure against evil and it would make us like Cain. We usually learn as we learn from Christianity taught according to the testimony of Christ that we are normally liars and we tend toward wrongdoing when angered. Then we need a way to live in trust but the only way is the one God made in goodness and supreme love which is the new covenant of the sacrifice made by Christ of His blood. This makes possible a trusting certainty of the ear of God and comfort of God (who gives us the Spirit for comfort and comforts in many other ways besides) and love and salvation of God. The blood turns away the wrath of God. It pays for what is wrong and the truth of it frees us from slavery to wrongdoing.
The picture is there of Cain who would have been accepted and had a chance to live in trust toward God if he had overcome the evil crouching at the door as he thought of killing Abel but since he succumbed he blew it with God and departed in disgrace. We would be like that if it were not for the sacrifice Jesus made of Himself. We would start life well enough but likely fail to keep strong and sure against evil and it would make us like Cain. We usually learn as we learn from Christianity taught according to the testimony of Christ that we are normally liars and we tend toward wrongdoing when angered. Then we need a way to live in trust but the only way is the one God made in goodness and supreme love which is the new covenant of the sacrifice made by Christ of His blood. This makes possible a trusting certainty of the ear of God and comfort of God (who gives us the Spirit for comfort and comforts in many other ways besides) and love and salvation of God. The blood turns away the wrath of God. It pays for what is wrong and the truth of it frees us from slavery to wrongdoing.
