Chapter 17: summary . . . OUCH!! it was interesting to read about why God wanted them circumcised, i had thought of that but never looked it up.
chapter 18: i find it interesting that when the Lord appeard to Abraham, he immediately went about preparing the BEST he could find to please him. i think this is a good example of how we tend to get busy in life and forget to give God our best, but God is God no matter where we are in our life or what we are doing. we should be rushing around "preparing our best" for him every second of every day. i also find it interesting that sarah laughed at what God said and then tried to cover it up, so something i would have done!! and then God simply responds, "yes, you did" and at first it looks like when kids bicker "you had your eyes open" no i didn't " yes you did" no yes no yes. but i have to remind myself that God is God and no matter what he isn't going to rub sin in our faces, he gently reminds us that he knows all and we can't justify or excuse away what we did because he knows it. i think he does that now with a gentle nudge from the holy spirit.
it also reminds us that nothing is impossible with God!
when God starts talking about soddom, abraham tries to reason with him out of concern for human life (and probably his family, Lot) the way God went about it gives us great example of how he works, he gave them a chance to witness to the depraved people, but they didn't make a difference, so he allowed them to flee (in another passage) he gives the righteouss a chance to amend their wrongs, but looking back into the life of sin we had can turn us into a pillar of salt (metaphorically speaking, literally for those days)
Chapter 19 a sin born of wickedness in Lot's two daughters resulted in two nations who terrorized israel. it's easy to say that our sins affect no one, they just wanted sons right? but they affected an entire race for a long time.
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