Know When to Run! – Genesis 19
I suppose, in the Walk of Faith – there are times we might find ourselves RUNNING! …. and in the running – it seems that we usually find ourselves - either ”running toward” something - or “running away” from something. It seems, too - that when we are honest - we find that in our Daily Walk - more often than we might like to admit it - we don’t find ourselves running “toward our God” – unless - we first, find ourselves, “running away from something”. 
Read Genesis 19:1-14.
Lot went out and warned the fiances of his daughters, “Evacuate this place; God is about to destroy this city!” But his daughters’ would-be husband’s treated it as a joke. v.14
I suppose, there is a real danger - that we might not consider often enough - how we can become spiritually and/or emotionally insensitive or unresponsive - from prolonged exposure, to what is going on all around us - such that we don’t even notice the monstrous evil, that presses in on us, from all sides – until it is too late. :(
Read Genesis 19:15-28
But he lingered; so the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the LORD being merciful to him, and they brought him out and left him outside the city. v.16
Lot was hesitant. It is telling – isn’t it? – that the angels of the Lord had to physically pull Lot and his wife and his children along, as it were, by the hand – to get them to run away from the evil that surrounded them. I suppose, that it was the “insensitivity” of their hearts - from prolonged exposure – that was the reason for their resistance – that kept them from running away, to the safety of the mountains - rather, they insisted on remaining close by, in the city of Zoar.
Consider how often we are guilty of trying to keep “0ne foot in the world” - and ”one foot in the country side, of faith” – - – hesitant - to separate ourselves - too completely, from everything that ties us to “this world, this flesh, the devil.”
Read Genesis 19:29-38
So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had settled. v.29
It is interesting to consider, that “God remembered Abraham” - and his walk of faith, when he had “run”, as it were, to stand in front of the Lord’s path – to intercede for those who might be spared from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorah – while Lot and his family were hesitant, to run away from the evil – much less toward God.
Sodom and Gomorrah – Nuremberg Chronicle – 1493
I suppose, in the Walk of Faith – there are times we might find ourselves RUNNING! …. and in the running – it seems that we usually find ourselves - either ”running toward” something - or “running away” from something. It seems, too - that when we are honest - we find that in our Daily Walk - more often than we might like to admit it - we don’t find ourselves running “toward our God” – unless - we first, find ourselves, “running away from something”.
….. Know When to Run!
January 02 2010 03:49 pm | Fathering Moments - The Daily Walk and Living in the Word