The Grace Faith

The story of Lot is one the saddest stories of believers in the bible. Lot was a righteous man before God although he did not have his life altogether. The bible says that his soul was tormented daily by what he saw and heard in Sodom. Even today we have Christians who live in a community that has no fear of the Lord at all. They speak all kinds of profanity and blasphemies and they are applauded. In the long run, some Christians who live in such communities end up adapting to that lifestyle of the infidels. Lot’s daughters were also contaminated by what they saw in Sodom as we see what they did to their father. Tell me, where did they learn about making someone drunk? They learned it from somewhere. But God still did not forget about him and his family, because he was righteous. So the bible says that God delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filth conduct of the wicked (read 2 Peter 2:7). God cannot forget His own people. Although there were lot of temptations around Lot,...

“After these things the word of the L ORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, ‘Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward’” (Genesis 15:1). I like the fact that God says He is the shield of Abraham in this passage. Why now? Maybe this is the time that Abraham was bit unsettled. Well, we must always remember that Abraham was a man like everyone else. He had his moments whereby he felt dismayed.  God said this after the event which took place in the north of Damascus in Syria when the Syrians had attacked Sodom and Gomorrah and captured Lot. Abraham armed only three hundred and eighteen servants to fight the Syrian armies. He came back with the victory and he also took their possessions and gave the spoils as tithe to the priest called Melchizedek in Sodom. At this point, Abraham might have thought about, what if they retaliate and come by night while he was sleeping. But God ensured that He was watching over him. Then Abraham said, “…Lord G OD , what wi...

In Genesis 19, we saw how Abraham interceded for Lot that he may not experience God’s judgement. But saddest thing here is that Lot never reached to where Abraham was because he refused to go to the mountain where he was pointed but chose to go to Zoar. Now Abraham in this instance is feeling sad that he could not save his nephew Lot from the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah. So he is condemning himself because Lot’s disappearance. At the same time, Abraham’s journey had to continue. Now Abraham is heading to Gerar, to king Abimelech, and as usual Abraham and Sarah planned that they would lie that they are siblings. This is twenty-five years later since he departed from king Pharaoh in Egypt; it worked then that he came out of Egypt very wealthy. The reason Abraham is doing this is because he fears for his life that king Abimelech will kill him for Sarah because she was beautiful. Where is his God whom he communicated with before the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah? At this point, he do...

Mankind’s sin and wickedness from Adam deteriorated to the point that God was grieved and regretted why He made men. The judgement was for God to bring the floods on earth to exterminate mankind, but because of righteousness, God found one man who was righteous and different from them all. This man was assigned to build the ship called the ark to put all the reptiles, birds and animals in it so that they could escape the floods. God requested that all animals should be brought in the ark in twos. We will follow the story of what transpired below.  The bible says, “Then the L ORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the L ORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the L ORD said, ‘I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them’ ...