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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Genesis 19:15-29
The deliverance of Lot is an answer to the prayer of Abraham in the preceding chapter. Abraham had believed that to save his brother, it was necessary for Sodom to be spared from destruction. But God does not always reply in the way we thought He would. But He replies.
Alas! Lot’s heart is deeply attached to all that he must now leave behind him; he delays his departure. The angels have to drag him away forcibly with his wife and his two daughters. Dear redeemed ones of the Lord, let us ask you the question: if we had to leave today and go to heaven, would it be joyfully? Or would we, like Lot, feel regret at leaving all the things down here to which our hearts are attached?
Sodom and Gomorrah are reduced to ashes, a solemn warning of what awaits the ungodly (2 Peter 2:6; Judges 1:7). As for Lot’s wife, she also lives like a monument in the Word of God, a warning to us of what it cost her to throw in her lot with a condemned world. This woman had shared in the life of God’s people in an outward manner for a long time. But she was not a part of it. The world was in her heart and she perished with it. Let us remember Lot’s wife! (Luke 17:32).
