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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness Gal 5:22 |
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Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Saturday, August 27, 2022
Today's Passage : Today's Passage :The Story of Abraham [26] - Sodom Bible Verse:Genesis 19:23-29 (ESV) "The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar. Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven. And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. But Lot’s wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord. And he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley, and he looked and, behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace. So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived." Message:
The walk to Zoar — for the unprepared Lot and his daughters — took a long time, almost a day; it was morning when the angels first started trying to make them leave Sodom, and by the time they reached Zoar, the sun had risen again.
As they leave Sodom, we get one of the iconic moments of the Bible. In verse 17, one of the angels had told them, “Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley.” But Lot’s wife, in her famous moment of disobedience, turns to look back at Sodom, and is transformed into a “pillar of salt.”
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Was the angel giving Lot’s wife a command, which she was punished for disobeying, or was he simply warning her about a hazard, which she disregarded with an unfortunate result? The tone of the story would indicate the latter; throughout the incident, the angels took the role of helpful and patient advisers, doing all in their power to get Lot and his family out of danger.
Also, we can never be sure how literally we should think she became a “pillar of salt.” Whoever observed and retold her death was hardly in a position to perform a chemical analysis. She certainly died, and her appearance changed to something pale and mineral-looking. But the story of Sodom and Gomorrah is filled with fascinating mystery. But the entire story could be literally true: There is, today, a human-shaped pillar, composed of 80% salt, overlooking the Dead Sea!
Whatever else we can say, Lot’s wife gave us a wonderful metaphor for how we must approach our faith. Once we find God and receive the Holy Spirit, we must not look back; we must not fantasize or romanticize a life of indulging our appetites and letting our pride, rather than the Bible and our spirit, guide our lives. To do so is to freeze us, to make us as incapable of action as a pillar of salt. Many people with some Christian feelings live a life trapped between righteousness and sin, like Lot’s wife; and like her, their inability to commit, to put their eyes forward and strive toward their destination, will doom them.
Meditation : Prayer : God our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, and Spirit of God amidst us, direct our way unto you. Make us to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you; to the end we may establish our hearts unblameable in holiness before you, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.....Amen |
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