Genesis 13:9-11 KJV
Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
It is interesting to me that, had Lot chosen the other land, besides where Sodom and Gomorrah were, Abram would have taken the land Lot chose and Abram would not (at least I think I can presume) have sinned in doing it. The trouble was not the location. The trouble was a heart problem.
Lot made the choice he made selfishly and soulishly. He saw fleshly benefits in the east and made his choice for those benefits. And doing so, it vexed his righteous soul.
When will we ever learn to live on choices that are based on spiritual principles and the leadership of the Lord? Following the Spirit of God, the saint may live anywhere and be blessed and used of God. Following the flesh, the carnal person can find trouble and vexation anywhere in the world, and the best of locations can be the source of their undoing.
Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
It is interesting to me that, had Lot chosen the other land, besides where Sodom and Gomorrah were, Abram would have taken the land Lot chose and Abram would not (at least I think I can presume) have sinned in doing it. The trouble was not the location. The trouble was a heart problem.
Lot made the choice he made selfishly and soulishly. He saw fleshly benefits in the east and made his choice for those benefits. And doing so, it vexed his righteous soul.
When will we ever learn to live on choices that are based on spiritual principles and the leadership of the Lord? Following the Spirit of God, the saint may live anywhere and be blessed and used of God. Following the flesh, the carnal person can find trouble and vexation anywhere in the world, and the best of locations can be the source of their undoing.
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