Today, I was struck by what a horrible place Sodom must have been. If men went around at night looking for new people to rape, why would anyone stay? Why would Lot stay? He had a rich uncle just a few miles away. Lot had his own wealth, he could have left on his own accord. Then when the angels say it is time to go, Lot lingers Genesis 19:16. In my mind I am thinking he must be crazy. Men of God are telling to go, you were just willing to give your daughters to a sex crazed mob running around your city. GET OUT! But then I think about the many crazy things I do, just to stay in a place that is familiar and comfortable. Father, open our eyes to this kind of blindness. Help us embrace the freedom You provided on the cross and the empty tomb.
Then the lesson on forgiveness. I wonder if the Holy Spirit put this chapter together so we could see the need to love Jesus the way child does, then remember children are often tempted and sin, that sin cause us to hide from the ones that love us, but the One who loves us will seek us out not to punish us, but to love us. The chapter doesn't stop their, it moves on to state we are then to go and forgive others, why because we have been forgiven much and for no other reason than God desired to do so.
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