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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
What Are You Waiting For?
Have you ever wondered what went through Lot's thick skull? What was his problem? He sat in the middle of the worst circumstances imaginable, dawdled and dilly-dallied until it took a literal act of God to get him moving, and because of his inaction, his family ended up wrecked beyond repair. Why? What exactly was he waiting for?
You see, Lot didn't have to end up that way. He walked with Abraham according to Genesis 12:4-5, but when it came time to make a choice for himself, he leaned toward Sodom and Gomorrah because it was like the land of Egypt (Gen 13:10). Without getting too abstruse or abstract, just remember that Egypt is a type of the world all throughout the Bible. So it's safe to say that Lot decided to lean toward the world and worldliness rather than stay in the presence of God and his people. He made a decision to take his family away from the things of God.
One thing that's perplexing about Lot is found in 2 Peter 2:8: (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
Honestly, this scripture lets us know that Lot KNEW the issues and problems of the choice he'd made and hated what was going on around him, yet he DID NOTHING ABOUT IT. What was he waiting for?
You probably know the story; in the end, his wife ended up dead (turned into a pillar of salt), his daughters had incestuous relations with him, his family was completed destroyed, and Moab and Benammi (the boys born of the incidents with his daughters) ended up being a thorn in the side of the people of God.
All this came about because Lot made a terrible decision to live in Sodom and Gomorrah, and then waited until it was too late to get out. What would have happened if he'd not made the choice to follow after the things of the world, or even still, while his daughters were still toddlers, what if he would have prayed through and got his family out before the mindset of the world had taken hold? Who knows. All we know is what did happen.
So let's ask ourselves today, "what are we waiting for?"
Saint of God, you want more of Him, you want to be used, you want to impact your world. What are you waiting for?
Backslider, you know Jesus is there, arms opened wide, ready to take you back into the fold. You know the church is praying and fasting and waiting for your return. What are you waiting for?
You who don't know God, or you don't know Him in fullness of truth, but you feel that tug at your soul, you feel that there's more to life than what you have right now. There's an inexplicable emptiness deep down inside that gnaws at you in the night. What are you waiting for?
Let's learn from the account of Lot and his family. Let's act before it's too late. Let's stop waiting and turn wholeheartedly to God. Forget about the unknown, forget about how comfortable it may be in your familiar surroundings, forget about the things of this world that pull at you. Let's stop waiting and plug into God. Let's launch into the deep and see how far He'll take us!!!
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