Careful Where You Pitch Your Tent ((2)

There's a saying, " Sin will take you further than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, cost you more than you want to pay." That pretty much expresses what happen in this story.

Jesus says in Luke 17:32, "Remember Lot's wife," what could be so significant about her story? Jesus declares the atmosphere before He returns to earth. "Just like the days of Lot, they were eating and drinking and selling and planting and building." (28) Sounds like things will be going on in the last days as if there will be no consequences for men's actions.

God warns Abram that He is going to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. He begins to pray that God would change His mind. He says; "Lord if there be 50, would you save the city? 'The Lord says yes, Abram says; "how about if there be 40,30,20,10?" There wasn't even 10 to be found.

God's angles came on the scene to deliver Lot's family just before the fire of judgment falls from heaven. While they're in Lot's house, men from Sodom come to have sex with the two men or the angles from heaven. Lot is willing to give up his two daughters in order to save the angles from the perpetrators. God needs no assistance from Lot; the angles blind the men at the door. (Gen 18: 5-11)

"At dawn God says through his angles; Get up, get going, and don't look back lest you be turned into a pillar of salt." As the family escaped, running for their lives, "Lot's wife turned to look back and was turned into a pillar of salt."

Where is your heart with God today? Have you pitched your tent towards Sodom, towards your own plans, your own agenda, your own desires, your lust, your pride, your having life your own way?

Fire fell down from heaven and destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. All was left was smoke rising up from the land. One day God's fire of judgment will fall again on this earth during the days of tribulation.

Will you be ready? Will your heart be prepared for the day the Lord will return for his children? If you sense that tugging on your heart now, if you feel the Lord calling you back to him today, don't put it off, call on him now? Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Roman 10:13