Remember Lot’s Choice

To have the right to make a choice is a great privilege, but can and often does get us into a lot of trouble. On one occasion Lot was given the right to make a choice, and the choice he would make would effect him and his family the rest of their lives. (Gen.13:4-14). When we view this decision, we would certainly conclude that Lot made a bad choice. Like many today Lot valued material things more highly than he did the spiritual. He looked only in one direction, noticing the fertile land, and the good he thought was connected with it, and he grabbed it. His choice! Nevertheless, his eyes were blinded to spiritual values, and it kept him from seeing the danger and the heartaches that were bound to follow. We are made to wonder why Lot would lead his  family  into such  a way  of life.  Yet, we turn and see so much of that today. Members of the Lord’s  church  today are walking the same path as did Lot. They are so weak spiritually, they are almost dead. Their eyes they have closed to the truth. Their ears will not hear, and their hearts are becoming harder and harder. They show forth Christ, and show up to worship God only when it is to their advantage. Sad, sad. Nothing  can be said  about their ability  to have the  time and the  energy to acquire material riches and more things of this world. However, they have neither the time nor the energy for the spiritual. Result. . .the church doesn’t grow, the lost are not reached, and they become harder and harder to satisfy.

            God gave Lot and his family an opportunity to save their lives, but his sons-in-law and his wife would not listen. What is sad about this whole affair is that people today are so inclined to the worldly they will not listen when they are warned of the dangers  toward  which  they  are  driving.  The  results  are  very often seen in their unsettled and disturbed life, with one heartache after another.     .

Lot owed so much to Abraham  and  especially  to  God,  but he considered neither of them when he was making his choice. Our blessings are innumerable and because of God! God gives us life! God grants us strength to live this day! Yet, in spite of all  this  many  have  chosen  to  walk no more with Him and have become unfaithful. Others have become so engrossed with selfish moods and ideas, they can find no pleasure in their fellow man nor God’s working orders. Sad, sad. However, more than a few have chosen to lay up treasures in Heaven. It is the choice they have made, and  find great and lasting joy or delight in forgetting about themselves, and devoting all of their influence to the congregation of which they love and pray for in every prayer. What will be your choice?  Make it for righteousness!

. . . .Fred  House