When
Lot and his family were rushed out of Sodom
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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