19 Your[c] servant has found favor in your[d]eyes, and you[e] have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die.
This acts captured in this chapter are pretty sick, kind of hard to even think about. This verse did catch my attention though, even though the angels had saved Lot and his family he still does not place complete trust or obedience to their direction.
How often am I the same? Does He give me direction but I say well that would be good but how about this alternative instead of being obedient. I don't think I'm that intentional in my lack of obedience but I wonder if when I don't think I getting direction from Him its because I'm not listening because I already have my own ideas.
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every time I read this chapter, I'm floored that Lot offered his 2 daughters to the angry crowd. It seems unbelievable by todays standards. Unless you look at it from the perspective of Lot knowing who the strangers were and knew their importance, and felt that anything was worth sacrificing for them....but by the rest of the script, he doesn't seem to act that way.
ReplyDeleteThen the last part is hard to believe as well. The same 2 daughtets that Lot offers to the angry crowd get him drunk and sleep with him? Its crazy!
So, to your point. Lot didn't really have complete faith in God. He interjected his own fears into the mix. And, his daughters did the same thing. They didn't trust that God would take care of them, even though he just completely spared their lives, and they took matters into their own hands.
Nutty chapter.