Afterward Lot left Zoar because he was afraid of the people there, and he went to live in a cave in the mountains with his two daughters.
Genesis 19:30
Seconds before Sodom and Gomorrah goes up in flames, Lot argues with the angel about God’s instructions to flee to the mountains. “Oh no, my Lord!” Lot begs, “You can’t send me to the mountains! I’ll die there!”
What we choose to argue with God about, boggles my mind sometimes. God saves us from the fiery furnace of hell . . . and we’re worried about location for the one and a half minutes we have left to live.
I’ll be honest with ya—I’ve wanted to live anywhere but Elevator Road most of my life. I often feel like George Bailey from It’s A Wonderful Life. If I could just get to Europe . . . life would be like vacation all the time. Isn’t that what George thinks? Isn’t that what we think? That’s what I think when smoke starts rising. When fear lowers like the gunmetal gray of November. “A new place could fix everything.” But here’s the deal . . . I can’t leave me behind. I’m coming with. My discontented heart is the whole reason for the move. I get it. Shifting circumstances require change. Relocating is not always a choice but a demand. Lot had to leave. Sodom was under God’s judgement. However, Lot still wasn’t yielding to the God trying to save his raggedy ol’ self.
I know what yer thinking. “I wish God would send me an angel so I could know where I’m supposed to be, or what I’m supposed to do about this pickle I’m in. I would do whatever God said.” I know this cuz it’s exactly what I thought.
I love this quote by Ian Wooldridge, “We tend to not grow haphazardly in our ability to hear God’s voice and be sensitive to His leading. The ability to hear God’s voice is very much like a skill that we hone over time. Prayer, that is to say: the regular setting aside of times and places where we intentionally place ourselves before God in a posture of listening, and interactive conversation, is a key way by which we make ourselves ready to hear and receive the loving initiation of God in our lives.” Did you hear that? Intentionally placing ourselves before God in a posture of listening, and interactive conversation. Not zippin’ through the day assuming God will make time for me. But me, sitting at the Lord’s feet. Approaching Him like El Shaddai—God Almighty.
Lot’s view of God was small. Considered himself more street wise than He who laid the foundations of the world. “Send me to that small village nearby,” Lot argued. Yet, when all was said and done—he chose a cave in the mountains. Imagine that.
The Lord knows the very hairs of His kid’s heads. They can position themselves at His feet with certainty.
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and depart from evil.” (Proverbs 3:5-7)
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