Brother’s Keeper

Speaking Cain’s Language.

Read Genesis. 4:9

Am I my brother’s keeper? He should have humbled himself, and said, Am not I my brother’s murderer? But he flies in the face of God himself as if he had asked him an impertinent question, to which he was no way obliged to give an answer: “Am I my brother’s keeper? Surely he is old enough to take care of himself, nor did I ever take any charge of him.” Some think he reflects on God and his providence as if he had said, “Art not thou his keeper? If he be missing, on thee be the blame, and not on me, who never undertook to keep him.”

Note, A charitable concern for our brethren, as their keepers, is a great duty, which is strictly required of us, but is generally neglected by us. Those who are unconcerned in the affairs of their brethren, and take no care, when they have the opportunity, to prevent their hurt in their bodies, goods, or good name, especially in their souls, do, in effect, speak Cain’s language.

See Leviticus 19:17;

17 “You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him.

18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am the LORD.

Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

Philemon 2:4.

Read the Word of God.

God Bless you as you meditate on His Word