RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!

Have you had to run for your dear life?    Imagine that a group of armed robbers were pursuing you and you had to run for your dear life. In the bible there was a man who had to run for his life, not because of armed robbers but because the city he was living in was about to be destroyed. It was lot. He had been living in the land of Sodom and Gomorrah. The land of Sodom and Gomorrah became notorious with iniquity and God’s anger kindled against them. But God wanted to spare lot and his family. Genesis 19:15 says, “At dawn, the angels tried to make lot hurry. “Quick!” they said “take your wife and your two daughters and get out, so that you will not lose your lives when the city is destroyed.” What in the first place, took lot to Sodom? It was the attraction of the Jordan valley that took him there. He chose to stay there because he discovered it was well watered and flourishing. But it was too close to Sodom. It didn’t take long for him to move into Sodom. He knew that people of Sodom were wicked, yet he chose to live there. Some choices that we make are just too close to Sodom. If you pitch your tent near Sodom, you will soon live in it. Sodom is a symbol of sin. Don’t live very close to sin and say it does not matter. You will soon find yourself rolling in the depth of that sin. People who have been trapped by addiction did not envisage that addiction. The addiction started like some innocent harmless acts. Some gamblers started just by putting a quarter in the slot machine. Some pornographers started by just a glance at some funny pictures that didn’t seem to matter much. Some thieves started by taking away their parent’s little pennies. Some fornicators started by just giving it a trial. You don’t play with fire. If you do, you will get burnt. Sin has the power to draw. Don’t tempt yourself, because you will surely fall. Don’t give sin a chance to drag you back in! Make sin to lose its breadth trying to catch up with you. If you have been caught by addiction, all you have to do is to RUN for your dear life. The angel said to lot and his family, “RUN for your lives! Don’t look back and don’t stop in the valley. Run to the hills so that you won’t be killed”. (Gen 19:17). Do whatever it will take for you to quit that sin, because that addiction is digging your grave.