When the Lord called David and I to adopt, we jumped right in with both feet. When the Lord told me to go Gospel Rescue Mission and volunteer, I hesitated. For three months. It took His continued gentle prodding to get me to finally step out in faith. Why did I hesitate? Fear. A homeless shelter was out of my comfort zone. It was someplace I had never gone and something I had never done. I'm glad He kept pushing.
The angels told Lot to leave Sodom. It was a matter of life and death. Yet, Lot hesitated. Why? Maybe he was comfortable in his sinful surroundings. Maybe he didn't want to give up his wealth. Once the angels forced Lot out of the city, he again resists the angels instructions on going to the mountains. He negotiates for a better option.
Are you hesitating? Are you resisting? Are you trying to negotiate with the Lord? Have you become comfortable wuth your surroundings? Maybe it's time to step out in faith and obey the Lord.
Genesis 19:12-26 NLT
12 Meanwhile, the angels questioned Lot. “Do you have any other relatives here in the city?” they asked. “Get them out of this place—your sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or anyone else. 13 For we are about to destroy this city completely. The outcry against this place is so great it has reached the LORD, and He has sent us to destroy it.”
14 So Lot rushed out to tell his daughters’ fiancés, “Quick, get out of the city! The LORD is about to destroy it.” But the young men thought he was only joking.
15 At dawn the next morning the angels became insistent. “Hurry,” they said to Lot. “Take your wife and your two daughters who are here. Get out right now, or you will be swept away in the destruction of the city!”
16 When Lot still hesitated, the angels seized his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters and rushed them to safety outside the city, for the LORD was merciful. 17 When they were safely out of the city, one of the angels ordered, “Run for your lives! And don’t look back or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”
18 “Oh no, my lord!” Lot begged. 19 “You have been so gracious to me and saved my life, and you have shown such great kindness. But I cannot go to the mountains. Disaster would catch up to me there, and I would soon die. 20 See, there is a small village nearby. Please let me go there instead; don’t you see how small it is? Then my life will be saved.”
21 “All right,” the angel said, “I will grant your request. I will not destroy the little village. 22 But hurry! Escape to it, for I can do nothing until you arrive there.” (This explains why that village was known as Zoar, which means “little place.”)
23 Lot reached the village just as the sun was rising over the horizon. 24 Then the LORD rained down fire and burning sulfur from the sky on Sodom and Gomorrah. 25 He utterly destroyed them, along with the other cities and villages of the plain, wiping out all the people and every bit of vegetation. 26 But Lot’s wife looked back as she was following behind him, and she turned into a pillar of salt.
Blessings, Cecilia
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