If you have Bibles, I want to turn to Genesis chapter 19.
Genesis chapter 19, I mentioned in a remind message this week a book,
and it's kind of just an overflow of something else that's been going on since October.
I meet with men at 6 o'clock and at 9 o'clock on Tuesday mornings,
and we read a common book together and just discuss that book, Bible-themed book.
Right now I'm whooping him like a dog, and he's whooping me too.
A.W. Towser, we'll finish that up this week, take a couple of months off and start back.
And as I began to prepare for the fall and thought about, well, not really fall,
but the end of the summer when we start back and thought about what to read,
this is a book that I had in mind.
I've used it before in that kind of capacity, and as I thought about it,
I thought, no, this might be a good one for everybody to read.
Need something to read over summer that will do us well and maybe open our eyes to some stuff.
And so I bought several copies, and we have them available.
It's called The Unsaved Christian, and interesting work from Dean in Syria.
And I was in a conference last, two weeks ago, and Dean spoke at that conference,
and I went to a breakout session for him, and he spoke again there.
He pastors a church in Tallahassee, City Church, a church he planted,
and reaching a young generation for Christ in a powerful way.
And when I got the case of books in, I took a picture of it and sent him a message on Twitter and said,
Dean direct messaged me, and he did.
And so I said, when we finish this book, is there a possibility for us to get you on Zoom
and have the opportunity to just meet with you and talk to you about what the book is made up of?
So we'll have a special session for that in August or something like that.
And so if you're interested in anything like that, I don't have a dog in a hunt.
Church is paying taxes on it, actually.
So it's $10 a book.
Some guys, when I mentioned it Tuesday morning, they were so excited about it
that they started throwing money at me.
I said, this is not a poker game.
We are buying books anyway.
So they've got some prepaid down here.
If you paid me the other day, I don't know who you are.
I wasn't keeping up.
But if you paid me the other day, it's down here on the front.
If not, Jeff will be in the back and have those books available.
And if we run out, we'll buy some more.
So you won't be tested on it.
I actually thought about what I put in the bulletin.
I told her to put a good slow eye-opening.
It's not really slow.
It's kind of a fast read.
But you can read it slow, is my point, because it's not that big a book.
So enough with the commercial.
Genesis chapter 19.
What I love about God's Word, a lot of things I love about God's Word,
but when I'm reading Abraham, what I love about God's Word is
that he gives us so many life stories, biographies in Scripture
that we can learn from these guys, especially in the Old Testament.
And I believe God places those there for us to not only understand how he established what we have in our faith today,
but I believe he also pointed out everything about these guys' lives so that we could learn from them.
The biographies of the men and the women in the Old Testament particularly are placed there so that we can learn from their triumphs,
and we can learn from their mistakes, and we can see how God works and how he moves and how we are to respond to him.
And we get to see family relationships.
We get to see where it goes right and where it goes wrong so that we can learn from those things.
And so we spent some time in Abraham.
I don't apologize for that because I believe there's great significance to this.
I was coming home from that conference a couple of weeks ago in Charlotte,
and one of the guys that spoke there, Dr. Bob Smith, wonderful preaching professor from Beeson Seminary,
he said that one thing he's done, they ask about how you prepare for preaching and what do you do and those type of things.
He said, one thing that I've started doing is I've started listening to Scripture.
I just listen to Scripture, listen to somebody read it, and just take in the text more so and just focus on that.
And so I got an app as I was leaving and put that on Genesis chapter 12,
and for one hour listened to somebody with a slightly British accent read the life of Abraham to me.
And it was amazing, although I'm studying it in depth, it was amazing that just by doing that, it helped me to see the intricacies of that.
As well, let me say that we'll always try to post the Scripture that I'm reading from on the screen so that it's there before you and all those things.
But don't underestimate the value of having a copy of God's Word with you.
Sometimes on Saturday night I get to scratching a little bit and changing some things and adding some things and those type things along the way that may not make it to the screen.
And there's some things that in today's passage, for instance, that you might want to underline and to look at.
And so there's great value in having your copy of God's Word as well as I believe it's a wonderful testimony to have it as well.
And so anyway, enough of that.
But I'm thankful for the Word of God telling us the ins and the outs.
And it does tell us that.
And it tells us that way in some ways kind of uncomfortable way, quite honestly.
Today we're looking at Abraham's nephew more so.
His name is Lot.
And if you remember some time ago, we looked at the fact that they, when God told Abraham to leave his family and to travel,
he brought Lot with him.
And that didn't work out so well.
And so they had to split along the way.
Both of them had quite an entourage or a household.
And they began to have some conflicts along the way.
And so they split.
And when Abraham gave Lot a choice of the direction that he would go in, he chose to go east.
Because he saw, he foresaw some prosperity there.
Honestly, the land looked more fertile.
And he headed out toward the most fertile fields.
But what he thought would be promise and would bring promise instead led to much of his demise.
What started as simply devising his own plan led to wondering.
And a lot of times that happens, by the way.
When we devise our own plan, we have a tendency to wonder.
And what starts as little sins leads to great ones.
I just want you to listen how things went south when Lot went east.
It's in Genesis chapter 19.
Beginning in verse 1, it says this.
The two angels.
Now the angels that it's talking about, we previously looked at three people, three men that came to see Abraham.
And it was clearly identified to us that one of those men was God.
I believe it was the pre-incarnate Christ in Scripture.
And those other two men, it later said in Genesis 18, went on to Sodom.
Now that we're looking at Sodom, it says the two angels.
So what Scripture has done for us is identified a very unique circumstance.
In the sense that three guys came to see Abraham.
One of them was in fact God incarnate.
And two of them were messengers of God, or angels.
And that's what it's talking about here.
It says the two angels came to Sodom in the evening.
And Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom.
When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth.
And said, my Lord, my Lord, please turn aside to your servant's house and spend the night and wash your feet.
Then you may rise up early and go on your way.
And they said, no, we'll spend the night in the town square.
But he pressed them strongly.
So they turned aside to him and entered his house.
And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread.
And they ate.
But before they laid down, before they laid down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old,
all the people to the last man surrounded the house.
And they called to Lot, where are the men who came to see you tonight?
Bring them out to us that we may know them.
Lot went out to the men of the entrance.
Shut the door after them and said, shut the door after him and said, I beg you, my brothers, don't act so wickedly.
Behold, I have two daughters who've not known any man.
Let me bring them out to you.
And do to them as you please.
Only do nothing to these men, for they've come under the shelter of my room.
But they said, stand back.
And they said, this fellow came to sojourn.
And he's become the judge.
Now we'll deal worse with you than with them.
And they pressed hard against the man Lot and drew near to break the door down.
But the men reached out their hands, talking about the angels, and brought Lot into the house with him and shut the door.
And they struck, talking about the angels, struck with blindness the men who were at the entrance of the house,
both small and great, so that they wore themselves out, groping for the door.
Then the men said to Lot, have you anyone else here, sons-in-laws, sons, daughters, anyone you have in the city, bring them out of the place.
For we're about to destroy this place because the outcry against his people has become great before the Lord.
And the Lord has sent us to destroy it.
So Lot went out and said to his son-in-laws who were to marry his daughters, up, get out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city.
But it seemed to his son-in-laws to be jesting.
As morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, said, up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city.
But he lingered.
That's an underline, by the way.
But he lingered.
So the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the Lord being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.
And as they brought him out, one said, escape for your life.
Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley.
Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away.
And Lot said to them, oh, no, my lords.
Behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness and saving my life.
But I can't escape to the hills, lest the disaster overtake me and I'll die.
Behold, this city is near enough to flee to, and it's a little one.
Let me escape there.
Is it not a little one?
And my life will be saved.
He said to them, behold, I grant you this favor also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
Escape there quickly, for I can do nothing till you arrive there.
Therefore, the name of the city was called Zor.
The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zor.
Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
And he overthrew those cities and all the valley and all the inhabitants of the city and what grew on the ground.
But Lot's wife behind him looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord.
And he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley.
And he looked, and behold, the smoke of the land went up like a smoke of a furnace.
So it was there when God destroyed the cities of the valley.
God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the mist of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.
Let's pray together.
Lord, this passage is kind of overwhelming, quite honestly, to me as I read it.
To see that the mess that Lot put his family in,
and the decisions that he made that cost them greatly.
God, I ask that you'll help us to learn from his experience,
so that we don't make the same kind of mistakes.
But instead, Lord, that we follow your plan immediately,
what you would have for us, Father.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Man, there's so much to dig through here.
I don't have time, and you don't want me to take the time to do it.
It is what it is.
It's a sad situation, quite honestly.
There's some mistakes along the way that may have seemed small.
Some of his mistakes might even seem smart to him, quite honestly.
But it got him in a mess that continued to cost him big.
And how he handled it was foolish to say the best.
But what I want to focus on this morning for a few minutes
is to notice the contrast between Abraham and Lot.
Two different dudes doing two different things.
Now, I will say at the beginning,
Lot is called in Scripture later righteous.
So it's not that we're talking about a wicked, horrible person at all.
We're talking about somebody who made bad decisions.
And out of those bad decisions,
we can learn to make good ones.
The first difference that I want you to notice about these men
are their locations.
Abraham was near the great trees of Mamrie
where he built an altar for the Lord.
That he came back and revisited.
And where God met with him.
Lot was in Sodom.
Sodom is the picture of the wickedness of the world in one city.
Chapter 19 is merely an example.
We get the word sodomy from the city Sodom.
My friend, when you sleep with trash,
you smell like trash and you'll become trash.
And so was the case with Lot.
You better be careful where you pitch your tent.
Not only were their locations different,
but their plans were different.
Genesis 18 verse 1 tells us that
Abraham was sitting at the entrance of his tent.
He was a nomad.
He was a man on the go.
Not just wondering, but being guided by God.
He went when God told him to go.
He went where God told him to go.
And he went how God told him to go.
And he stopped when God told him to stop.
And God's plan for him was his plan.
Hebrews 11 verse 10 tells us this.
It said,
For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations,
whose designer and builder is God.
In other words, he's looking beyond this world.
He just wanted to follow God.
And Abraham's sights were set on bigger things.
Lot, however,
Genesis 19 tells us,
was sitting in the gateway of the city.
Do you realize what that means?
That when you have a walled city,
the gateway became the lingering place.
It's where the markets were
because everybody had to go through there
if they were leaving town
or if they were coming to town.
It was a busy spot.
But you know who else sat there?
The sages.
Those who led the city.
Those who had strong influence in the town.
And Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city.
Either means he was giving advice to the city
or he was taking it from the city.
One of the others, what that means.
He was a major player in that city.
A town spokesman.
An honoree of sorts.
That's not bad unless it's a wicked city.
And Lot was up to bad stuff.
Self-made stuff is the biggest problem with it.
Self-made and wrong stuff.
I want you to notice
their plans.
The third thing I want you to notice
is their passions.
In Genesis 18,
God appeared to Abraham
along with two of his messengers,
which we've determined are angels from Scripture.
And when Abraham saw
what appeared to be messengers from God,
he hurried from the entrance of his tent
to meet them.
That's in Genesis 18, verse 2.
As opposed to that,
when angels in the form of two men came to Lot,
Genesis 19, 1 tells us
he simply got up to meet them.
Now, there's a difference
in hurrying out to meet somebody
and just getting up to meet somebody.
You want to know the difference in that
is my dog and my kids.
Okay?
That's the difference.
Who wags their tails
and meets me at the door
when I get home?
It's not my kids.
You know?
Men, if you ever wondered
if your dog or your wife
loves you more,
I got a test for you.
Lock them both in the trunk of the car
and see who's happy to see you
after an hour.
Don't do that.
Okay?
That's a joke.
Abraham had such a love for God
every time he felt his presence,
saw a manifestation of him,
he ran to him.
He had a passion.
He had a zeal for God.
I've never met someone
who did not have a passion
for something.
And Abraham had one
for God.
Their passions were different.
Not only that,
but their offerings were different.
When Abraham offered
to host his company,
they were appreciative.
That's in Genesis 18.5.
When Lot gave the identical invitation,
they were first declined.
That's in Genesis 19.2.
But Abraham was much more personal.
He was offering himself
and all that he had.
Lot was simply offering
his possessions.
God's not interested
in keeping company
with your possessions.
He wants you.
And when you draw the lines
in the sand
of what he can have
and what he can't have,
that's not surrender.
surrender.
God wants us.
And when he has us,
our possessions
are his as well
because he's got us.
It's a priority factor
of what's most important to us.
But there was a difference
in what they offer.
Not only that,
but there was a difference
in their families.
Chapter 18 shows us
that Abraham's family
was a household with purpose
and working together
with common priorities.
Lot had to go this alone.
He had a family
but they were not helping.
Genesis 19 verse 3
tells us that.
And then apparently
they were unsettled
and they were unhealthy.
In verse 14,
when he told the son-in-laws
what they needed to do,
they didn't take him seriously.
They thought he was kidding.
Sin always promises
a good time
with fun company
but it's only for a season.
Sin is the loneliest place
on earth
and then if without Jesus
you die,
you go to hell.
And I want to be clear
about something.
You don't go to hell
with a company of friends
to rejoice with there.
Not at all.
We'll look in detail
this fall
on what the scripture
tells us
about not only heaven
but about hell.
But I want you to know
what stands out
about hell so much
is the loneliness
and the absence
of God's presence.
the suffering
primarily
from the absence
of God's presence.
Sin promises
a good time
but it lies to you.
Their families
were different.
Not only that
but their welcomes
were different.
Genesis 18 verse 8
tells us that Abraham
joined them as they ate.
He fellowshiped with them.
They conversed
as they ate.
Lot however
went outside
to turn away
the wicked men.
He shut the door
behind him
leaving his gift
in the house
unattended.
One is sitting down.
The other
is fending off.
Let me ask you something.
What do you do
when God comes
to see you?
When you really
sense his presence
in your life?
When you really feel
like he's speaking
to you about a matter
in your life?
How do you respond
to that?
When God probes
your heart
do you sit down
and sup with him?
Do you fellowship
with him about that?
Are you like
like are you trying
to close out
all the wickedness
in your life
and keep it
away from God?
Do you open
yourself up
to the Lord?
Do you open
yourself up
to him in prayer?
when you read
God's word
do you open
yourself up
to the word
of God
and allow him
to speak
and work
and move
in your life?
Whereas
godliness
opens spiritual
doors
wickedness
shuts them
and what
you'll find
is when
you close
yourself
off
if you
have a
pattern
of reading
God's word
in your life
and I've
encouraged that
and I'll
continue to
encourage it
but if you
have a pattern
of such
like that
but you're
not allowing
the Holy
Spirit
to work
and move
in your
life
you're not
opening
yourself
up to what
God would
have you
to show
in God's
word
you'll
grow less
passion
for reading
God's
word
your passion
for the
Lord will
dull
because you're
not receiving
what he has
to say to
you
you're not
responding
to it
same thing
happens
if there's
sin in your
life and
God reveals
that sin
and asks you
to respond
to it
in obedience
and you
fail to
respond to
that in
obedience
don't you
dare think
that that
don't affect
you in
your personal
relationship
with God
and how
scripture
speaks to
your heart
and life
how you're
able to
worship
not only
privately
but publicly
makes a
huge amount
of difference
there was a
difference
in the
welcomes
to the
Lord
not only
that but
there was a
difference
in their
words
from God
and I
mean the
personal
word that
God gave
them
both got a
message from
the Lord
Abraham
received a
word of
blessing
in Genesis
8 18
verse 10
he tells
in the
blessing
will be
the promise
of Isaac
coming in
about a
year
the long
awaited
promise
would
finally
be
fulfilled
now
Lot
on the
other hand
was warned
in Genesis
19 15
and he
said he
and his
family were
to leave
that city
that he
set out
on his
own
desires
and went
to
it's
interesting
to me
that we
often
seek
what we
do not
need
I want
you to
think about
this for
just a
minute
I hope
you get
this
it seems
in the
times when
we're in
sin
we need
God's
directive
warning
but we
seek his
love
we just
want God
to love
us
in spite of
what we're
doing
we don't
really want to
change what
we're doing
we just want
him to love
us in spite
of that
and get
pretty defensive
about that
sometimes
but when
we're striving
to please
him
and living
for him
we seek
his direction
we want
his direction
and we think
less about
his love
and his
grace
because
we're
seeking
the Lord
and we
want his
direction
and in
reality
it happens
just the
opposite
because when
we're dirty
and we don't
want to hear
it God
gives us
a directive
warning
it's what
he did
a lot
and when
we're seeking
his face
yet
failing
too much
to make
us content
he loves
us
he loves
us
through that
because he
knows we're
imperfect
and he loves
us through
that
he knows
what we
need
whether we're
ready for it
or not
he knows
that
so I
ask you
how is
God
speaking
to you
what are
you looking
for
and how is
he speaking
to you
are you
looking for
some type
warning
the reality
is if
you're seeking
the Lord
with your
life
and there's
not manifest
sin
recurring
sin
in your
life
and you're
seeking
the Lord
and you're
asking God
show me
this and show
me this
and show
me this
I'll tell
you he'll
flood you
with his
love
and grace
is what
he'll do
and if
there's
things in
your life
that you're
trying to
hide from
God
what a joke
that don't
work
but if
there's
things in
your life
that you
want to
hold on
to and
you don't
want to
give over
to the
Lord
and you're
trying to
hide from
God
you just
want him
to love
you in
spite of
that
I mean
I know
I'm doing
wrong
things
but God
I just
want you
to put
your grace
upon me
and love
me in
spite of
that
he'll give
you a
direct
warning
and you'll
feel that
then you'll
get mad
at the
preacher
because
sometimes
it came
from him
and that
ain't the
truth
that ain't
the way
that works
God knew
before the
foundation of
the earth
what people
needed to
hear today
in this
room
and so I
trust him
with that
I had a
preacher one
time tell
me unless
you finish
your sermon
on Saturday
night
you're not
being sensitive
to the Holy
Spirit
because you're
not watching
what's going
on in the
world
and I
said dude
I believe
that for the
foundation of
the earth
God knew
exactly what
I was to
preach when
I was to
preach it
and who I
was to
preach it
to and I
think he
knew what
was going
on in their
lives and
what they
needed to
hear so I
don't have
to figure
out the
world nor
the congregation
I just have
to stick to
God's word
just preach
what he tells
me to
preach
and let
it stick
where it
may
because God
will speak
to you
exactly where
you are
and give
you what
you need
how must
God speak
to you
based upon
your life
right now
there was
also a
difference in
their walks
whereas in
Genesis 18
16 and 17
it shares
with us
that Abraham
walked with
God and
God shared
his plan
with him
in chapter
19 verse
20 lot
hesitated to
walk in
his grace
and God
told him
to flee
and in
verse 16
it said
that he
lingered
God told
him to
flee and
he lingered
there's a
passage in
Joseph's life
where
Potiphar's
wife pursues
him
tempts him
it's very
forward with
him
to ask
him to
be with
her
and scripture
says that
he ran
so hard
he left
his coat
in her
hand
that's what
Lot needed
to do about
Sodom
he just
needed to
get out
but he
didn't
he lingered
some people
are happy
with God
just saving
them from
the pits
just taking
care of
their needs
and they
live their
life like
that
but then
some seek
to walk
with God
and it is
those that
seek to walk
with God
that God
shares his
plans with
he lets
you in
on it
I want
you to
notice the
difference
in their
prayers
in Genesis
18 verse
23
Abraham
interceded
on behalf
of the
whole city
we talked
about that
how he
prayed for
them
diligently
but in
Genesis
19 verse
20
Lot
simply
pleaded
for himself
he simply
wanted a
way out
he was
simply
watching out
for him
let me
escape
let my
life
be saved
what are
your prayers
focused on
are they
selfish
requests
are they
selfless
surrenders
what are
they
because prayer
is really
a surrender
it's nothing
less than
that
it's a
surrender
one more
thing I want
you to see
and it was
their attitudes
were different
Jesus 18
Abraham was
praying
he's seeing
himself as
only dust
and ashes
in verse
27
but in
Genesis 19
verse 19
Lot calls
himself
God's
servant
but when
God told
him to
flee
he said
he couldn't
call
yourself
what you
want to
but unless
you're sold
out to
God
you're not
his servant
and so the
question is
what are the
limitations that
we throw
before God
what are those
areas of our
life when we
don't want him
messing with
and if there's
any of those
we always are
going to settle
for God's
second best in
our life if
we're holding
things back
for being
everything that
we can be
for the
Lord
I will
tell you
that Lot's
life is a
preponderance
of small
mistakes along
the way
it's just a
build up of
small mistakes
as a matter of
fact 2 Peter
chapter 2
verse 7
and 8
tells us
that he was
a righteous
man that
was distressed
by the filthy
lives of lawless
men and that
he was living
day to day
with them
and it
tormented him
that's what
Peter tells us
about Lot
however he
chose his
course
and it
started small
he just saw
good land
he just thought
he'd take
advantage of a
deal
you go your
way and I'll
go mine and
you pick which
way well I'm
gonna pick the
best you know
and his drift
into the mess
that we see
in 19 that I
purposely didn't
focus on some
of it because
it's sickening
to me honestly
that mess that
he's in
that didn't
come overnight
just a trickle
just a slow
drift
headed the wrong
way
pitching your
tent in the
wrong place
watch the drift
in Genesis
13 verse 12
he pitches
his tent
near Sodom
in Genesis
14 verse 12
he's living
in Sodom
in Genesis
19 verse 1
he's sitting
at the gateway
of Sodom
just slowly
moving in
and destroying
everything that
he knows
it's the
antithesis of
of Psalm
chapter 1
when Psalm
chapter 1
says
blessed
is the
man
who
walks
not in
the
counsel
of the
wicked
nor
stands
in
the
way
of
sin
nor
sits
in
the
seat
of
scoffers
but his
delight
is in
the
law
of the
Lord
and on
his
law
he
meditates
day
and
night
he's
like
a
tree
planted
by
streams
of
water
that
yield
its
fruit
and
season
and
its
leaf
does
not
wither
and all
that
he
does
he
prospers
was it
all on
purpose
did he
mean to
live in
a condemned
city
no
he
simply
wanted
the
best
of
both
worlds
that's
what
he
wanted
and
his
sins
although
they
may
be
little
they
cost
him
big
and
the
results
was
disaster
you
see
Abraham
sought
the
Lord
at
all
cost
and
Lot
some
of
God
at
no
cost
is
what
he
sought
it's
contrasting
conditions
God
gives
us
choices
and
the
choice
is
ours
but
so
are
the
ramifications
may
we
look
at
someone
else's
wayward
life
and
learn
from
it
so
we
don't
do
the
same
in
our
own
life
with
every
head
bowed
and
every
eye
closed
if
you're
here
this
morning
and
you've
never
surrendered
your
life
to
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
I
want
you
to
know
he'll
save
you
today
he's
speaking
to your
heart's
life
it's
only
because
he
pursues
you
gives
you
the
opportunity
to
respond
to him
in
obedience
if that's
never
happened
to you
there's
no need
for you
to put
that off
any
longer
love to
guide
you in
that
maybe you're
here this
morning and
and you
have done
that
but
the
reality
is
you're
a
Christian
today
and
like
a lot
there's
some
similarities
in your
life
there's
just
some
slipping
some
stuff
that
you've
handled
yourself
instead
of
handling
God
some
ways
you've
pointed
your
own
direction
instead
of
trusting
God
and
his
you
need
to
get
that
right
whether
it's
publicly
or
privately
you
need
to
get
it
right
whether
it's
at
this
altar
or at
your
church
you
feel
like
the
Holy
Spirit
is
drawing
you
into
this
church
you
want
to
join
us
along
for
the
journey
I
encourage
you
if
God
is
leading
that
come
we'll
talk
about
that
maybe
you're
here
and
you
know
that
you're
a
Christian
but
you've
never
been
baptized
as a
believer
it's
never
happened
that's
the
first
step
of
obedience
that'll
be
a
hindrance
to
you
in
your
spiritual
life
for
the
Lord
we'd
love
to
guide
you
in
that
process
no
pressure
just
conversations
from
guides
Lord
Jesus
thank you
for
showing
us
a lot
it's
ugly
I
don't
like
reading
it
I
don't
like
thinking
about
it
being
put
in
such
a
situation
being
in
such
a
city
but
God
I
pray
today
that
you'll
help
us
to
learn
from
it
and
help
us
to
respond
in
obedience
because
of it
Father
I
pray
in
Jesus
name
Amen