Genesis Nineteen….(v.1) Lot's Slippery Slope.
Verse 1….
Lot had started out with his tent pitched towards Sodom (chapter 13:12) and now he was sitting IN the gate of Sodom as one of the chief men. How often we start on a course that we think we can handle, only to find that it overcomes us in the end!
We don't know whether Lot's wife was from Sodom or not, but the family was living in Sodom and part of it by this time with at least two married daughters living there. Lot didn't agree with the wickedness that went on in the city….his righteous soul was vexed every day by what he saw around him (2 Peter 2:6-9)… but he was too weak and too committed to move out.
No wonder the Psalmist could say that the man who could keep from socialising with the ungodly, standing with sinners in business or sitting in politics or councils was blessed indeed. (Psalm 1:1-6). It takes a strong committed Christian to be able to be in a position like this and to keep from being sucked into the system.
So now we see Lot sitting in the gate with the other officials, meeting these messengers from God who had come to warn him to flee from the coming destruction.
Lot had started with good intentions, Now found himself in evil past mention,
Through Abraham's prayers, He was saved from these cares,
And taken away from dissension.
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