by TheRestlessPilgrim | May 1, 2017 | Blog, Reflections From Genesis
Genesis 14:12 (NKJV) ‘They also took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.’ Lot had chosen the ‘lush plains of Sodom,’ not knowing he had chosen a place of contention and that he would become a captive together with all his...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Apr 30, 2017 | Blog, Reflections From Genesis
Genesis 14:4 (NKJV) ‘Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.’ There’s always a time or rebel. Staying under any bondage is not fun, and we must be willing to break off the yoke in due season. After serving Chedorlaomer for 12...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Apr 29, 2017 | Blog, Reflections From Genesis
Genesis 13:18 (NKJV) ‘Then Abram moved his tent, and went and dwelt by the terebinth trees of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to the Lord.’ I admire how Abram kept building an altar to God even as he moved from place to place. This practice of...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Apr 28, 2017 | Blog, Reflections From Genesis
Genesis 13:14-15 (NKJV) ‘And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him: “Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are… for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever.’ It’s important to be connected to God because...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Apr 27, 2017 | Blog, Reflections From Genesis
Genesis 13:10-11 (NKJV) ‘And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere (before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah)…Then Lot chose for himself all the plain of Jordan…’ What you see when you lift up your eyes depends on...
