The Man Who Would Not Look: Cain and the Refusal to Repent
🕯️ His face fell.
Three words from Genesis 4. And in those three words, the whole story is already decided.
Cain turned his face downward. Away from God. Away from the question being asked of him. Away from the warning being offered.
And that turned face became the posture of everything that followed.
St. Isaac the Syrian writes that the greatest obstacle to repentance is not the size of our sins. It is the refusal to look at them. The soul that looks away locks itself out of the very mercy standing at the door.
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