29 And that's the story: When God destroyed the Cities of the Plain, he was mindful of Abraham and first got Lot out of there before he blasted those cities off the face of the Earth. (The Message)
The story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is not an easy read. There is a lot there that we would rather not approach, at least I would rather not. But the story does not end with destruction it ends with new life. It is not life in the way we would like it to be in today's day and age but it is life! The story is a story of hope in the midst of danger, sin, and despair.
To often we look around us at the evil and we fall into the trap of saying only how bad the world is and how things will never change. But when we take that perspective we lose out on the thread of God's redemption story in the Bible. If the Sodom and Gomorrah story is only about God's justice we have lost the glory of what God is desiring to do and that is to bring life where there was once only death. The story of Sodom and Gomorrah is a story of hope just like every other story in the Bible.
Some thoughts to ponder and share with others:
- When you hear the names of the cities Sodom and Gomorrah what do you first think of?
- How is Lot's story a story of hope?
- When you see the world's problems do you see possibilities for despair or hope?
- What bad news in your life do you need to allow God to bring new life into the midst of it in the way that only he can?
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