Found In Him

And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.) So Lot chose for himself all the Jordan Valley, and Lot journeyed east. Thus they separated from each other. Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled among the cities of the valley and moved his tent as far as Sodom. Now the men of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the LORD.—Genesis 13:10-13, ESV

It seems like Lot’s error was selfishness. He “chose for himself all the Jordan Valley...” Rather than more evenly splitting the land, Lot wanted all of the most desirable land. As he moved closer to Sodom, he later fell pray to the wickedness of that culture and reaped disaster for his household. The lesson: we start off sowing small decisions that often result in us reaping significant results.

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.12 And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark,...— Genesis 7:11-13, ESV

There are a few interesting things to note from this passage. One is that this verse describes a catastrophic event that took place on the Earth that drastically changed the entire Earth as we know it. The violence of fountains of the great deep bursting forth and the rapid rise of water would have significantly changed the landscape of the earth in a few months rather than the effects of millions of years of weathering. Another interesting fact to note is that God considered Noah and his family righteous. Noah’s sons only had one wife each, confirming God’s view of marriage...

So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.—Genesis 3:6-7, ESV

It seems as though Adam was following Eve into sin when he should have led her away from sin. The failure of husbands to lead their wives has been the downfall of the family ever since! I need to examine my own leadership of my family on a daily basis.