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Song: There Is A Fountain
Scripture: Genesis 19:1-38
The well watered valley of the Jordan, cost Lot more than he bargained for. Living close to the world always does.
It cost him his home. While his uncle Abram dwelt in tents, Lot became a city dweller. But his retirement was spent in a cave with his daughters.
It cost him his wife. Living in Sodom may have vexed Lot’s righteous soul, but the city won the affections of his wife, whose punishment is a warning to all those who look back.
It cost him his good sense. Lot’s offer of his virgin daughters to the men of Sodom is atrocious. But men who compromise their morality by living on the edge will commit unimaginable atrocities.
It cost him his credibility. Lot’s warnings to his future sons-in-law were passed off as jesting. He waited too long to be a godly influence in their lives.
It cost him his daughters’ virtue. If Lot thought little of his daughters’ virginity, it’s not surprising that the daughters thought little of it themselves. So they slept with their father who had taught them that the end justifies the means.
2 Peter 2:7 says that Lot was a righteous man. I suppose he was—barely. But at what expense? God deliver me from such righteousness as may save my soul but cost me all else that is precious.
Jason Moore
