Today's reading in our plan is Genesis 19:30-38.
- Today we read about Lot’s daughters devising a rather disgusting plan to carry on their family line. They got their dad drunk to sleep with him and become pregnant. Lot’s daughters’ plan sounds extremely gross to us but apparently it was a common custom in their culture. However, Lot clearly wouldn’t have agreed which is why they had to get him drunk to carry out their plan.
- Yesterday we read and learned that Lot wasn’t 100% on board with following God’s plan for his family’s future. In this chapter we see how Lot’s family had let some of the depravity of the city they lived in creep into their life. Later in the Bible we’ll see that Lot’s descendants never followed God. Interestingly, the offspring of his daughter’s plan (the Moabites and Ammonites) became fierce enemies of Abraham’s descendants (the Israelites).
In reading about Lot and his family we can learn that God has a plan for our lives and we would be wise to follow his plan, not out of fear but because God has a better plan for us. But to fully live out the best life God has for us we have to be obedient, even when we don’t want to or understand what God is doing. Is there anything in your life right now that you know God wants or doesn’t want you to do and you’re not listening? Ask God to help you obey his plan for your life. It’s always easier for us to do our own thing but following God will always result in a more fulfilling life.
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