Do you feel wandering around?

Wandering Around...

Have you ever felt like wandering? Not sure of what is happening around you, life seems to be purposeless, focus less, and Joy seems to be a distant dream. Wandering interestingly does not mean you are idle but “To move about without a definite destination or purpose”. Wandering means trying to satisfy yourself by your own trial and error methods. People who are wandering sometimes don’t even realize that they are wandering long time.  Wandering is tricky and will take out our valuable god given time and energy out of us, even when we think we are doing many things and running here and there. You can be very busy but still be wandering; Keeping busy does not mean we are walking not wandering.

Cain the Wanderer

The Bible talks about a person named Cain wandering around in Genesis 4. Cain was the first son of Adam and Eve who were created by God from the dust of the ground. So Cain was the first baby born in to the world by god’s wonderful gift for mankind the ability to multiply. When Cain was born Adam and Eve exclaimed we have produced something and named him Cain. But terribly he turned out to be the first murderer; he killed his own little brother Abel. God judged him for his sin, but instead of repenting the Bible says Cain went out of God’s presence and lived in the Land of Nod.

“So Cain went out from the LORD’s presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden” Genesis 4:16

Effects of Wandering:

The place Nod literally means “WANDERING”. Yes Cain went away from the presence of the Lord and lived his life just by wandering. Living away from God’s plan is wandering, doing our own thing. As God’s Children he has a wonderful plan for you and me, we could never find satisfaction in our life, unless we start living in right standing with God. God will never force his plan in to your life, but he is waiting for you to accept his plan, which gives abundant life in this word and leads to eternal life. From Cain’s life we can understand about the bad fruits of wandering.

• Wanderers fear the world around them
• Wanderers want to always stay alone
• Wanderers will be restless in their life
• Wanderers feel they never have hope
• Wanderers never want to talk about the creator God
• Wanderers make their own law rejecting his perfect laws

God’s Mark of Grace for Wanderers

“Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.” Genesis 4:14

Cain said to God after he is judged for his sin that the punishment is too heavy for him. Cain feared for his life. But God is a perfect God who has created this world with perfect laws. Any sinner should be punished that is his justice. See nature around you, this world works perfectly under laws. Scientists today are digging deeper to know how this world is working so perfectly, one thing stands out its laws. God rules his creation by perfect laws. He is not just a law giver and Judge but a gracious loving God.

“But the LORD said to him, “Not so; if anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over.”  Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him” Genesis 4:15

Yes, God put a mark on Cain so that he will be having a grace time to repent and return to him. You might be wandering around; But God has still given you his grace to turn back to him any time. May be you walked one day in God’s ways, but now living discouraged and living away from God. May be you got diverted by the pleasures of this world, lust of the eyes. God still has a mark of Grace on you. Just comeback as you are he will heal all your wounds and change your life of desert in to an oasis again. 

My dear beloved how is your life today. Are you feeling lonely, Do you feel like wandering without any purpose.  Is sin ruining your life? If you feel like living a hopeless life, I want to share this good news to you that “God loves you”. As I have said God is a gracious loving God he has put a mark of grace for all of us, a way to turn back to him. He sent his only son in to this world for all of us wanderers. Yes Jesus came for you and me and died on the cross to pay the price for your sins and my sins. No more man’s sins will separate him from the loving God. You just need to take this free salvation and take the new life God has for you.

Romans Road back to God:

The Romans book in the bible clearly talks about the salvation of God through his son Jesus Christ.

1. We have all sinned and have fallen short

Romans 3:23 – “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”

Romans 3:10-18 – “There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. All have turned away; they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one. … There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

2. Wages of Sin is Death, But the Gift of God is Eternal Life

Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

3. God demonstrated his Love – He was not just giving rules and regulations

Romans 5:8 – “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

4. How to be saved? – Call the Name of Jesus and believe that he died for you

Romans 10:9 – “That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”

Romans 10:13 – For, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

5. Peace with God – We have peace with God through his Son Jesus Christ

Romans 5:1 – “Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ”

My beloved today, if you want to sincerely end your life of Wandering and start a new life in him. God demonstrated his love by sending his only son Jesus Christ to die on the cross for you and me. He rose again on the third day and is in heaven preparing a place for all of us who takes his salvation. He is waiting for you!

John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

Will you take your first step to come out of your life of wandering? Let us pray

Prayer:

Dear God, thanks for demonstrating your love by sending your son Jesus for my sins. I know I am a sinner and have rebelled against your laws. Please forgive me and accept me as your son. I do not want to wander any more. I will walk in your ways. Amen

If you have prayed this prayer with sincere heart, I know God would have given you his peace and Joy right now. Share with everybody around you what Jesus has done for you.

God Bless You in this new Purposeful Life

Jaisam Daniel
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