In Genesis 19, God comes to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. We are quick to write this off as about other people, but God says in Jude it's a warning to all of us, lest we fall into sin as well.
Lot has lived in Sodom for some time. He is a man of stature in the city, and Peter calls him a righteous man. We might wonder how a righteous man ends up in a spot like this. To be sure it was the small choices in his life that drove him to this point. So too in our life, the small choices over time are often what has a bigger impact on our walk with God.
Small choices will keep you away from God, or small choices will drive you to God.
When faced with the impending disaster and the word from God, Lot hesitated. When the Word of God comes and speaks into our hearts in times of trouble, it shows the idols we have, the things we hold nearer than God.
Sodom is about more than other people. It's about the wickedness that resides in all of us, and our need to be justified by Christ alone, not our deeds.
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