When we get to the last few verses of this chapter something caught my eye. After the death of Abel, there is a new line of children through Seth. Seth has a son after which the scriptures say that people began to call upon God. So what happened to bring this about?
Seth's son was named Enosh. Enosh according to one of the commentaries I was looking at was taken from a word that meant "weak, faint, or frail." The commentary made the point that this family line realized the frailty of man and therefore knew they needed to call upon God.
As I think about people today and throughout the Bible and history, it is only when we realize that we can't do it ourselves is when we look to get help. It would be great if people realized this early but like Genesis 4 it is usually after tragedy that people realize they need the help of God. For the Christian, we at one time realized that we couldn't save ourselves and so we asked Jesus to become our Savior and Lord. However, let's not think that we can now do it all on our own. Life is too big for any of us to handle it without help, so let's continue to call upon God and receive help. The amazing thing is God often uses people to help us so receiving help means that we have to let someone else be the hero.
Keil and Delitzsch OT Commentary https://biblehub.com/commentaries/kad/genesis/4.htm
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