Recently, I've started to re-read the bible, the NLT version... It's really exciting to read the bible again. I've been getting revelations just by reading and meditating on the Word. Every night as I read, I get more and more awed by God. He is really an amazing God; an awesome God. Despite reading the bible a few times through already, I can still get new revelations as I read again. This book is really the Word of God, a double-edged sword! There is no other book like this!!!
In Gen 19, the bible talks abt Sodom and Gomorrah being destroyed. From this one chapter, I learnt lots of things... In the 1st part, we know that the men in the city wanted to have sex with the angels!!! I was totally turned off. These men wanted to have sex with men... (the angels were in the form of men) These men were so so so blinded that they no longer could discern between what's right and what's wrong.. This is so sad... Later on the angels told Lot to get out of the city for the outcry against the place was so great that it has reached the Lord. So Lot was a righteous man, living in a'Sin City'.
Let's look at the scriptures, in vs 14-16...
14 So Lot rushed out to tell his daughters’ fiancés, “Quick, get out of the city! The Lord is about to destroy it.” But the young men thought he was only joking.
15 At dawn the next morning the angels became insistent. “Hurry,” they said to Lot. “Take your wife and your two daughters who are here. Get out right now, or you will be swept away in the destruction of the city!”
16 When Lot still hesitated, the angels seized his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters and rushed them to safety outside the city, for the Lord was merciful.
After reading this, I was bewildered. First, I didnt know Lot's daughters were engaged. The 2 young men were destroyed together with the cities as they were slow. This really struck me. These 2 men were given a chance to live. But cos of their slow reaction and nonchalant attitudes towards the words spoken by the angels, they died. They 'killed' themselves. From this, I learnt to take God's words seriously. All the words, the visions that God had spoken and shown me will come to be pass. I must be URGENT and DILIGENT in bringing them to pass. Not just sit around and wait for things to happen.
Many times in life, we procrastinate. We see that the angels waited... 'Til dawn' before they became insistent. I began to ask myself. Am I so great that the angels have to wait for me? I made a decision... I want to be so quick to obey God, so quick to get things done. I want to be the one who is so urgent and so accurate about the things of the Lord. Cos I love God and want to give Him my best. Everything I do, I'll do with a spirit of excellence.
Later on in the chapter, we know that Lot's wife turned back and turned into a pillar of salt. Lot's daughters got him drunk and had sex with him in order to preserve the family line; taking things into their own hands. And as a result, the people of Moabites and Ammonites were born, who are always moving against God's plan.
In life, ppl like to take things into their own hands, believing that they themselves know what's best for themselves. Not realising that the consequences of their actions are actually against the will of God, God's plan for their lives. So sad... Kaypohs... Why dun just trust the Lord???
