Genesis Nineteen….(v.26-38) Lot's Weakness.
Verses 26-38….
Verse 26 seems to show most of Lot's weakness…his wife. She was too strong for him, she didn't really believe the messengers…..
She didn't want to leave her home, and she didn't want to go to the mountains either….everything she said, Lot went along with. Her heart was still in Sodom. As they were taken forcibly by the hands of the two messengers, she hung back watching it all happen. As she dithered around, she was turned into a salty statue, destroyed by the same stuff that was destroying her things back home.
How many people are not prepared to leave their old ways to take the deliverance offered by God! They are ultimately destroyed by the very thing they hang onto…their sin.
We wonder what Abraham's thoughts were the next morning as he surveyed the smoking plain! He probably never saw Lot again. But that is not the end of Lot's weakness. His two single daughters were still tainted with Sodom's wickedness and evil and thought nothing of the incest between them and their father….in fact, they planned it. The results of it plagued God's people for ever in the Moabites and Ammonites (symbols of the flesh) that overran their borders for years. In the same way believers today are plagued by the fleshly desires as Paul describes in Romans 7:14-25….I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind and bringing me into the captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Lot's life was saved, his things were gone, Nothing left that he'd worked on.
No-one listened to what he said, For he was weak and easily led.
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