Where is your brother Abel?

Have you ever read the story of the first human family on earth? That is in the first book of the bible, which is Genesis. If you read chapter 4, you will come across two brothers: Cain and Abel. These were children of Adam and Eve, the first man and woman of all human kind.

Cain was a tiller of the ground, like what we would call today a farmer. Abel was a keeper of sheep, or a shepherd. They were both raised as good believers knowing that at harvest they should give the best of their produce. When they both brought their offering to the Lord, God approved Abel's and had no regard to that of Cain.

Of course, this generated some jealousy in Cain against his brother who will eventually decided to murder Abel. When he had fulfilled his evil plan, he thought that no one would know this since it happened in the field.

However, God spoke to Cain asking him this question: where is your brother?(Genesis 4: 9)" Is it not the same question that God has been asking all of us today? Your friend, family members or neighbor, are they not supposed to be on the same path where you are right now? Are they not also people God cares for? Where are they? God is asking the same question to you.

Not that you have murdered someone, but perhaps you have hurt a friend, a spouse, your child, or a neighbor. Because of what you did, these people have left. They have gone away from your life, your neighborhood, your church. God is asking you: "Were are they?"

I feel it is time to go and get our brother, sister, parents, children, spouses, church members and all the other people, who have gone away, back to God. Do you not think it is time for all to get back together? Do you not see that it is time to over all these little things that divide and separate us? Go out and make sure that, by all means, Abel gets back to God and the community of believers!


Be always strong and of good courage!

Emmanuel