Take a moment to read the entire chapter of Genesis 19 before reading the devotional below.
Today we’re going to focus on Lot, the nephew of Abraham who gets rescued from destruction because Abraham pleaded with God. Ultimately, I’m on the fence about whether Lot was “righteous,” but God spared him and his family anyway. They’re a pretty dysfunctional bunch.
Lot tries to warn some of the impending doom, but they don’t believe him. He barely has time to rescue his wife and two daughters, and even then Lot hesitates. Lot’s wife looked back at the life she was upset to leave (which revealed her own love of evil), and she turned into a pillar of salt. Lot’s daughters plot an evil scheme as well, ultimately giving birth to two sons whose descendants become significant enemies of the Israelites. Perhaps things would have worked out better if God had not said yes to Abraham’s prayer.
Here’s your freedom for today:
Staying away from evil is freedom.
Sometimes people think God wants to ruin all their fun with all his rules and demands for perfection. Lot and his family could barely pull away from the evil in their city in time to escape destruction. They wanted to keep their “fun.” In the end, evil ALWAYS is destructive and when we hang on to it we are ruined. God gives us freedom in allowing us a way to turn from evil and come to him through faith in Jesus. Don’t be like Lot’s wife and wistfully look back on all God has called you to leave behind — run for the hills without a second thought!