Gen 19:8 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
Gen 19:26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
Gen 19:31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: Gen 19:32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
We read these things that happened in the life of Lot, and we think that they’re terrible, awful things. And the truth is, they are. He offered up his virgin daughters to the townspeople to do whatever they wanted to do to them. That’s not what I would call good parenting skills.
His wife was turned into salt. Talk about marital problems. Lot lost the woman who had given her life to be with him, and loved him, as well as the mother of his daughters. He lost a valuable asset in his life, forever.
His daughters got him drunk and slept with him. Incest. It’s not something one would want to partake in, at any time. And they got him drunk to do it. Taken advantage of by his own daughters.
But how did Lot get to this point where all this was happening in his life? Well, way back in chapter 13, Lot made a choice.
Gen 13:11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other. Gen 13:12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom
Lot chose to go and pitch his tent towards Sodom. And we know that the plains in that area looked good and well watered from what the Bible says of them. And that’s where all the misery of Lot began.
See, Lot made a choice to go after what looked good. And that choice, though it seemed good at the time, would lead him to all the things in chapter 19. I think of my own life, and how true the Word of God rings, where I’ve made decisions that seemed good, but weren’t necessarily a godly decision, and later brought me much strife and discomfort.
And, when making decisions, it’s always, always, always best to seek the Lord first, and not our own get and gain. Abraham decided to be humble, and let Lot have the choice of where to go. And the thing about that is that Abraham was the one going! Lot was just tagging along for the ride. But Abraham was humble, and let Lot pick, even if it meant giving up the land that was best for the cattle!
But because of his humility, Abraham never went through all the strife that Lot did, or any of the mess that we read about in chapter 19.
So the next time we’re making choices, or decisions, I think we would do well not to seek after what looks good to our eyes, but rather to seek after the Lord, even if it doesn’t always look like the right, or bountiful choice to make.
Gen 17:26 En el mismo día fué circuncidado Abraham é Ismael su hijo.
A mí no me gustaría circuncidarme con la edad de Abraham. Sería un gran dolor y no sería buena para la salud…infecciones, sangre….qué terrible!
Pero, fue un mandamiento de Dios. Y Abraham, como un padre y un líder, hizo lo necesario para ser un ejemplo a su hijo, y sus siervos y seguir a Dios.
Y este es un gran líder! Un hombre que hace las cosas que no siempre traen gozo y placer, pero hace lo que Dios quiere.
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