All the land which thou seest

“And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee. Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.”

Abraham gave Lot the choice of where to go but he trusted in the Lord. These days there are many people in the church whose major gift seems to be self promotion and they are the ones who seem to do best in the ways of the world. However, Abraham, as the senior member of the clan had every right to follow the ways of self promotion and take the best land for himself. In this case, Abraham took the eternal perspective and trusted the Lord to keep His promises and look after Abraham’s interests. Abraham was “looking for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God” (Heb 11: 10). Lot looked at the city of Sodom and chose the immediate way to prosperity. Abraham had to save Lot from the fruit of this choice and then God saved Lot from the fruit of this choice. Later Lot’s two sons (who were also his grandsons) were the enemies of Abraham’s descendants and interfered with the inevitable progress of God’s plan of redemption. There is always a temptation to follow the pathway of self promotion and things will seem to work out much more efficiently but if we look at the promise the Lord made to Abraham (He would give Abraham all the land in every direction and He did.) the we can see that self promotions doesn’t have the same eternal benefits as trusting the Lord. At least half of the world’s population know about Abraham for his own deeds, by the grace of God, but the only reason we know anything about Lot is because he was involved with Abraham. This section also gives us good instruction concerning the Word of God. If we want to take full advantage of all God’s promises we have to know what they are and the only way we can know that is by reading the entire Bible. (This could easily take a year or two.)

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(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)