DAY 6 Read Genesis 16 through 19
Today's reading recounts, among a number of other occurrences during Abraham's life, the escape of Lot' and his two daughters--not his wife--from the destruction of Sodom.
Memory gem: "Remember Lot's wife" (Luke 17:32).
Thought for today:
While Lot's wife was out of Sodom, Sodom was not out of her. Her heart was back in the city, which was soon to be consumed. She fled but desired to look back. And the Scriptures say, "She became a pillar of salt" (Genesis 19:26). She was like a woman who, saved from a burning house, rushes back to find some treasured possession and is burned with her possessions. Lot's wife had been saved from destruction by angels, but she had nothing in common with angels.
Possibly if Lot himself had not lingered, had not argued with the angels, had not hesitated, his wife might have been saved. In that respect, his influence on her was not good.
Just to look may seem like a little sin, but, as Matthew Henry puts it in his quaint way, "There is no little sin, because there is no little God to sin against."
There are too many halfway Christians in the world today, people who are outwardly church members, servants of the Lord, professors of the faith, but whose hearts are still in Sodom, still in the world. That is what Jesus was talking about when He said: "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" (John 3:3).
Today's reading recounts, among a number of other occurrences during Abraham's life, the escape of Lot' and his two daughters--not his wife--from the destruction of Sodom.
Memory gem: "Remember Lot's wife" (Luke 17:32).
Thought for today:
While Lot's wife was out of Sodom, Sodom was not out of her. Her heart was back in the city, which was soon to be consumed. She fled but desired to look back. And the Scriptures say, "She became a pillar of salt" (Genesis 19:26). She was like a woman who, saved from a burning house, rushes back to find some treasured possession and is burned with her possessions. Lot's wife had been saved from destruction by angels, but she had nothing in common with angels.
Possibly if Lot himself had not lingered, had not argued with the angels, had not hesitated, his wife might have been saved. In that respect, his influence on her was not good.
Just to look may seem like a little sin, but, as Matthew Henry puts it in his quaint way, "There is no little sin, because there is no little God to sin against."
There are too many halfway Christians in the world today, people who are outwardly church members, servants of the Lord, professors of the faith, but whose hearts are still in Sodom, still in the world. That is what Jesus was talking about when He said: "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" (John 3:3).
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