Day 6

Genesis 18-21:7

Choices, we all make choices as soon as we wake up in the morning. Each choice we make has a positive or negative impact. Some decisions that we make have consequences, our decision to speed down the freeway and receiving a speeding ticket. How about letting porn into our lives? Hiding conversations with another women from your wife? These small sins open the door for much larger sins to enter and fester and grow in our lives. It causes shame, guilt, and we start removing ourselves from community. Or if you are really over burdened with sin you can walk in community like nothing is happening. 

Some decisions we make seem to be a great idea to help financially, invest in the stock that is skyrocketing only to see it plummet within a month and you lose everything. 

Abram let Lot make a choice back in Gen 13, take the fruitful Jordan valley, or to take the land to the east that wasn’t. From a far off distance the Valley looked amazing, but this valley was home to Sodom and Gamora, this valley was filled with evil, and Idolatry. Lot chose to surround himself with evil even though he was trying to live for the Lord. 

In this section of scripture Abraham (Abram) is put into a position he needs to make a decision, does he save Lot or not. Lot chose to live in the same valley that Sodom and Gamora are in, he has been living in a place of evil yet he hasn’t shown anyone that he is living for the Lord. He is living in a stagnant walk with the Lord. God sees the evil that is happening and decides he is going to destroy both towns, wipe them out, clean off the slate like they have never been there before. Abraham and the Lord have a conversation while two angels are heading to Sodom, Abraham knowing that lot is in Sodom and that the Lord is going to destroy starts pleading for the righteous that may be in Sodom he pleads that God would not destroy the city if 50 righteous people live there. This goes on from 50-10 righteous people. When it is all said and done it comes down to Lot, his wife and his two daughters are the only ones to be saved. Instructed by angels to flee, run as fast as you can, don’t look back. 

“And as they brought them out, one said, “Escape for your life. Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away.”   Gen 19:17

Sometimes we need to stop the sin that we are living in and RUN, RUN as fast as we can away from it. Never look back. Let the control go, because when we first let the sin in we think, “Oh, I can control this sin, it’s not that bad, it won’t hurt me. I’ve got this under control”