Genesis 19:16-17 (NKJV)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018And while he lingered, the men took hold of his hand, his wife\u2019s hand, and the hands of his two daughters, the Lord being merciful to him\u2026 \u201cEscape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain\u2026lest you be destroyed.\u201d\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Move away from the plains of sin. As God leads us away from the life and people of Sodom, don\u2019t resist Him. Lot lingered. He was a bit reluctant. What was holding him back? Whatever it was, it shouldn\u2019t have. When judgment and destruction are released upon a people and a lifestyle, the best thing we can do is to step away from it lest we are consumed with it. Yes, intercede for and preach to them; but there\u2019s also a place to step away when judgment has come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Lord was merciful to Lot (because of Abraham\u2019s intercession), and that\u2019s why He gently forced them away from Sodom. The instructions were clear: \u2018escape, don\u2019t look back, get far away as possible.\u2019 May the Lord have mercy on us and lead us away from the plains of Sodom, even when we may be slow to move away. There are attitudes and appetites that we must flee from because they belong to the world system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Don\u2019t linger at the borders of Sodom. Move away and move quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Yes Lord, I hear You. I will not linger around or within the borders of Sodom; for these are regions earmarked for destruction. I choose to flee from the unrepentant and the wilfully proud, lest I be corrupted by their ways. Tear my heart away Lord and turn my eyes swiftly to the cities of refuge, in Jesus name. Amen.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Genesis 19:16-17 (NKJV) \u2018And while he lingered, the men took hold of his hand, his wife\u2019s hand, and the hands of his two daughters, the Lord being merciful to him\u2026 \u201cEscape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain\u2026lest you be destroyed.\u201d\u2019 Move away from the plains of sin. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-reflections-from-genesis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Reflections-from-Genesis.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5073,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070\/revisions\/5073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}