Devotion To The Lord Needs To Be Renewed Day-By-Day.

Genesis 19:1-29

In Genesis 3, we read of humanity’s fall into sin. Here, we see the awfulness of human sin and the awesomeness of divine judgment. We must take God with the utmost seriousness. If we refuse to take Him seriously, He will continue to take us seriously - in His judgment! Sin leads to judgment - that’s the lesson of Sodom and Gomorrah. There is sadness in the story of Lot. A compromised believer for whom the world had no respect, he chose Sodom. This choice brought him nothing but sin and shame - ‘and now he wants to play the judge!’(9). The amazing thing is that God did not give up on this ‘backslider’- ‘the Lord was merciful to them... He brought Lot out of the catastrophe’(16,29). What a great thing it is to have God’s salvation: ‘everything we need for life and godliness’ to ‘escape the corruption in the world’(2 Peter 1:3-5).

Genesis 19:30-20:18

These are stories of deception and deceit. Lot is deceived by his daughters (30-38). Abraham deceives Abimelech (1-18). Even with the divine provision for godliness, we need to be constantly on our guard. Even those to whom we had looked for help can turn out to be a hindrance. Lot was drawn into word not allowed. This had drastic effects - ‘the father of the Moabites, the father of the Ammonites’(37-38)! Devotion to the Lord needs to be renewed day-by-day. Otherwise, we will be vulnerable to the attacks of the enemy and overcome by him. Abraham concealed the whole truth by telling a half-truth (12). Abraham was regarded as ‘a prophet’(7). He ought to have lived the life of a prophet, a true life. We are to be true - the people of God.