Lot Lessons

Lot teaches us that material good may tempt and conquer, even after it has once been overcome.  His early life had been heroic.  In his young enthusiasm, he had thrown in his portion with Abram in his great venture.  He had not been thinking of his flocks when he left Haran.  Probably, as I have just said, he was a good deal galvanized into imitation.  But, still, he had chosen the better part.  But now, he has tired of a pilgrim’s life.  There are men who cut down the thorns and in whom the seed is sown.  But, thorns are tenacious of life and quick growing, and so they spread over the field and choke the seed.  It is easier to take some one bold step than to keep true through life to its spirit.  Youth contemns but, too often, middle age worships worldy success.  The world tightens its grasp as we grow older, and Lot and Demas teach us that it is hard to keep, for a lifetime, on the heights.  Faith, strong and ever renewed by communication, can do it.  Nothing else can. – From: Expositions of Holy Scripture.  Comment on Genesis 13:1-13.

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