Please read Genesis 13.
www.blueletterbible.org/nasb/gen/13/1/s_13001
Meditate on this phrase from verse 5.
Now Lot, who went with Abram …
There is a repeated phrase in Genesis 12-13: “Lot went with him” (Genesis 12:4; 13:1, 5). Lot was Abram’s nephew, the adult son of Abram’s deceased brother, Haran. Abram’s father, Terah, assumed the responsibility of his grandson, Lot, after the death of Haran (Genesis 11:27-31).
God told Abram to go forth from his country and from his relatives and from his father’s house to the land He would show him (Genesis 12:1). Well, Abram obeyed part of God’s commands. He left his country and went to the land God showed him, but he took Lot with him.
Partial obedience to God is disobedience, and there are always consequences to disobeying God. Abram gave up the best of God’s gift of land to selfish Lot in order to appease him and put an end to family strife. Abram finally obeyed God in Genesis 13:11, “thus they separated from each other.” But by this point, the consequences remained, and you will continue to read about Lot in the days to come. In fact, to this day, the descendants of Lot occupy the land east of the Jordan River (Genesis 13:11), and there is still strife between the descendants of Lot (Jordan) and the descendants of Abram (Israel).
Does it matter whether you choose to completely obey God or not? The countries of Israel and Jordan live with the consequences of a relative who partially obeyed God over 4000 years ago.
Pray Genesis 13:18 over yourself and those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).
“LORD, help ________ and me to move
our tents as soon as You tell us,
to the place You tell us, and in the way You tell us.
Then and there we will build an altar and worship You, LORD.
Because of Your name, Jesus~”
The WATCHMAN on the WALL ~ Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell
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