When Abraham and Lot’s (his nephew) wealth grew abundantly, wisdom dictated that the best way to solve the internal squabbles between their hirelings, due to condensed space and pasture control, was to part ways. Pasture and space emerged as the push factors. Their longtime honeymoon was amicably disillusioned. Gen 13:9 Is not all the land before you? then let us go our separate ways: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; or if you take the right, I will go to the left. It was the genesis of two different narratives.
Lot, assumably, must have learned alot from Abraham by this time. Given the choices that were available, and out of self love which I believe was not a crime, he chose the good looking area. Ge 13:10… And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking in the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar. You cannot make the wrong choices especially where the person giving you such a deal wants the best for you.
When I gave my life to Christ, I was not skyrocketed to my maker or ushered into the golden streets in the new Jerusalem. This is the state of many who’ve accepted Jesus Christ as their redeemer. We maintain it here in the fallen world. Infact, we are positioned in the midst of the very world where we are witnesses of every manner of wickedness for a purpose. How then is it expected of us in such moments? Are we still on course or have we aborted the mission?
I am not sure at what point Sodom and Gomorrah evolved to the LG and an insinuated B (LGBT) society but it is the next thing that is told after the parting. It seems all of Lot’s road converged to the Corinths of the era. Few chapters later God’s agents are on their mission to wipe every oxygen user within Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot is the man who is extending hospitality to the angels. Since they were men, the queer community were ready to extend their unnatural ‘fellowship’ to these men. They were not few but many extending from all over that land. Fascinatingly, Lot seems to have been baptized from the state of radical to liberal minded man evidenced by his response: Gen 19:7-8… And he said, My brothers, do not do this evil. See now, I have two unmarried daughters; I will send them out to you so that you may do to them whatever seems good to you: only do nothing to these men, for this is why they have come under the shade of my roof – he wants to orient them to the B section of LGB…
Think of how our society operates and how believers, you and I, respond to some of the issues that are there. Either from the pulpit, work places, friend circles,etc. How many times have we made jokes, given options and opinions that seem less harmful in the name of making it cool? The response that I do not care about as long as it is not affecting me or everyone has their own issue to deal with has become the rhyme scheme. We give options to immorality. According to Lot, ‘sacrificing’ his daughters out for gang raping was not that evil in comparison to homesexuality. I have heard people say lesbianism is even understandable in comparison to man to man – they say so showing a disgusted face in reference to the latter. Or let us teach children safe sex to avoid pregnancy and STIs as opposed to teaching them that fornication is sin. These are solutions that have been coined by both non-believers and believers; for non-believers that is not news anyway.
Ro 12:1-2… For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him. And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God. The LORD, who made it clear that sin is sin in spite of our intentions to disguise the outcome as less harmful, is still highly enthroned and has not waived his standards. Lot brings out a character who is so much absorbed by the environment around him forgetting God’s call- assuming he had learnt about worship from Abraham. This means we have enrolled to the institute of parttime Christianity instead of full time attendance. Could it be that Lot went from a hot to a lukewarm worshiper? Could it be that he had forgotten his daily walk with the master? That worship had long been overtaken by some ‘important’ things? Are we following in the footsteps of Lot or Abraham- after the parting Abraham’s story was quite the opposite?
The question of whether there would be enough evidence to convict you as a Christian were you to be arraigned in court is a call to a self-introspection. Who would stand to witness( believers and unbelievers alike) and testify that your conduct, consistency, character, etc demonstrates truly that you are a Christian? Are we walking the talk? Or would they, witnesses, be candidates of emergency rooms from the shocker of having your name and Christianity in the same stanza? How truthful are we to the call? In the words of Ray Boltz: Let us proudly stand and boldly say,I pledge allegiance to the Lamb, With all my strength, With all I am, I will seek to honor His commands I pledge allegiance to the Lamb.