Saturday, January 7, 2012

Day 7: Genesis 19, 20 and 21


Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains. (Genesis 19:30)

When Lot and his family were rushed out of Sodom, the angels told them to run for the mountains: Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away! (19:17)

Instantly Lot started back pedaling. Yeah,… about that. I’m not overly fond of the mountains, you know – vertigo, and all that – dry skin. Couldn’t Witness Protection set us up in a nice little villa somewhere in the valley?…like Zoar?

Why did Lot resist the angels’ counsel to head for the mountains? Did he have ulterior motives? It seems he left Sodom begrudgingly, and didn’t want to relocate any further away than absolutely necessary. Maybe he underestimated the coming destruction, or was he living in denial? As an objective observer, I think he was holding on to something.

Then the sun came up (vs 23) and Lot shuddered to look at the devastation happening all around him. A tenuous oasis centered in a desert of destruction, suddenly Zoar didn’t look like the vacation getaway it seemed before the sky started raining fire.

And sometime in there Lot’s wife looked back. Was she making sure she and her family were safe? Or was it a look filled with resentment for the life she’d left behind? It was her undoing.

Hey, those mountains don’t sound so bad after all.

Have you ever tried to talk God out of something only to find out later He really does know best?

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