![]() ![]() It appears that Lot, though wealthy, is not quite as rich as Abram. Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks and herds and tents. ![]() In this case, it was Abram’s nephew, Lot. But God is about to test Abram again, only this time, with a family member. He was already being blessed by God even though Abram has not shown much faith in God. So now, as verse 2 says, Abram was very rich. It was there that he and Sarai lied to Pharaoh, but even then, God was with them, and blessed them, and gave them much wealth through Pharaoh. Then a famine came, and rather than trust in God to provide, he fled to Egypt. In Genesis 12, he began in Bethel and Ai, and built an altar there and called on the name of the Lord (Genesis 12:8). And there Abram called on the name of the Lord.Ībram is backtracking his steps. And he went on his journey from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai, to the place of the altar which he had made there at first. Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold. Then Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, to the South. Abram’s choices are presented first in verses 1-9, but the scene is set in Genesis 13:1-5. And now they return to Canaan where both men face choices. We aren’t told in chapter 12 if they went to Egypt together or not, but in all likelihood, they did. They left Haran together and came to Canaan together. The two men are, of course, Abram and Lot. So as we watch these two men in Genesis 13 make their choices, watch in the chapters to come for the consequences that follow. Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 10:11 that the accounts in the Bible were written to us as examples for our instruction. It all comes down to choices.Īnd so we can learn a lot from men and women in the Bible by watching the choices they make, and the consequences that result. How you respond to God will either make you corrupt or Christ-like. ![]() How you react to others can make you hurtful or helpful. How you react to life’s circumstances can make you bitter or better. Every single choice you face every single day is a fork in the road. I don’t know if you ever view your choices as forks in the road of life, but it is helpful habit to get into. What was the difference? It was all in the roads they chose to travel. The first ends up losing his possessions and family. One chose the well traveled road to Vanity Fair. Where before these two men had traveled together down a long and dusty road, they now choose to take separate and different paths. In this chapter, we have two men and a fork in the road. These immortal words by Robert Frost in his poem The Road Less Traveled could have been pulled straight from Genesis 13. Should he trust God’s word or trust in riches and human wisdom and wealth? He let’s Lot make the decision for him, and Lot chooses the way of wealth and human wisdom. In Genesis 13, Abraham is faced with a test of faith. ![]()
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