27Early the next morning, Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD. 28He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.
29So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.
Abraham wanted to remember his meeting with God, so he returned to their meeting place. Has God so moved you that you returned to the place to take it all in?
Back in Abraham’s time what type of furnace would they have? One that comes to mind would be for smelting iron, minerals. I suspect the smoke from the land was on a greater scale that nothing manmade would compare until modern warfare.
God remembered Abraham, it was Abraham that reasoned with God for Lot’s life. But Lot lost everything except his daughters. His compromise with sin led to the loss of his wife and all his wealth.
Why do we allow sin to compromise our lives, to affect our relationship with God?
Paul in Romans 7:24 says it best, “Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death?”
There is only one thing that can bring you out of the catastrophe that is destroying your life, Jesus!
Blessings, David
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