Genesis 18:16–33
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to one of the most remarkable conversations in all of Scripture. It is a scene that ought to adjust our thinking about prayer, justice, and what it means to be in a covenant relationship with the living God. Abraham, the patriarch, the friend of God, is brought into the high council of heaven. He is not merely a subject of God's decrees; he is invited into the deliberation room. This is not the kind of access one gets with a distant, impersonal deity. On the one hand, our culture is screaming for justice. They want justice for the oppressed, justice for the marginalized, and justice for the planet. But the justice they demand is a justice of their own making, defined by their own shifting standards, and enforced with their own brand of self-righteous fury.