Genesis 13:14–18
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in a sentimental age, an age that despises sharp edges and necessary divisions. Our culture preaches a gospel of indiscriminate inclusivity, which is really just a gospel of universal compromise. But the God of Scripture is a God who separates. And in the work of redemption, He is constantly separating His people from the world. He separates a man from his pagan kindred in Ur, and He separates a believer from his former life of sin. Sometimes, He even separates believers from other believers when their paths diverge. This is what we have just witnessed in the life of Abram. The conflict between his herdsmen and the herdsmen of his nephew Lot was not just a squabble over grazing rights. It was a collision of two different trajectories, two different ways of seeing the world. He chose what was immediately gratifying, what was prosperous in the world's eyes, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.