Harm and failure

It’s in our nature to want to pull someone else down due to our frustrations and failures.

This happens all the time at work, in families, and among friends. People who are discontent with life look to harm others to make themselves feel better. It’s a sad thing.

Unfortunately, many of us have been on the receiving end of that. Some of us have even been the discontent offender.

As I read the story of Cain and Abel this morning, I realized that Cain is the first person to express this type of fallen nature, also known as jealousy. In his failure and out of frustration, he went after a successful man’s blood – his brother. What a tragedy.

What God said to Cain before killing his brother still applies today in all of our frustrations and failures:

If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it.

-God in Genesis 4:7

It’s in our refusal of being better that we begin to do crooked things such as scheming, harming others, or cheating to ease the frustration of failure.

Many of our problems and successes are a direct result from our performance in life.

What’s the solution? Be better.