well, it feels like we're flying through genesis. it's so packed full of ancient culture...the story/history of a people...much about how they interacted with one another/we'll look at covenants later today when i will post again. this morning, let's look at the sodom story...
--old testament understanding--
the angels came to lot with warning. and they stepped into the city that was breaking God's heart...to the extent that He would destroy it.
how desperate could lot have felt to protect the angels in chapter 19? i am seriously experiencing nausea thinking about his offer in v 7. that he would offer them his daughters to "do to them whatever you like"...this brings me to tears. WHAT IN THE WORLD?!!!
this city was in such a horrible place of immorality and injustice that God could not tolerate it anymore. and He didn't tolerate it.
--personal thoughts--
at passion 2012, the conference that we have attended this week, there was a very, very intentional focus on educating the students and adults that attended on the very real presence of slavery in the world today. they helped us to see the realities of the injustice and devastating sinful acts of a culture debased. this is all so fresh and on my mind...the pain of injustice on 27 million...the estimated number of slaves on the planet today. the thing is, it's not just forced labor...it's sex slavery...children/little girls as young as 4 yrs old...sold for sex.
as i think of sodom...this all comes to mind. the great injustice of this horrible place. i'm wondering why lot and his family had stayed as long as they had. were they so very desensitized to this culture of sin?
i am praying that i would know the justice of God and would see injustice the way He does. that i would not be desensitized nor be comfortable with injustice in my city....
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