“But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take [any] person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.” Ezekiel 33:6
I read this devotional this morning and before I knew it I had begun the process of editing it to fit into a text for parents. I sent it to our parents affiliated in the church and then realized the time. So this is the GMWOTD… You MAY have already seen it.
Read: Genesis 19:12-38
“So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.” Genesis 19:36
Before this incident, these two girls were physically virgins, though already debauched in their minds. They had long since grown accustomed to obscenity and unrestrained luridness, so, up in the cave on the mountainside, they seized the thinnest of excuses. The story ends in a foul orgy of drunkenness and incest. Lot had nothing but heartbreak and grief to show for his years in Sodom. The Lord said, For whoever wants to save his life will lose it (Matthew 16:25a). So Lot, trying to get the best out of both worlds, lost all & became the picture of the Christian who is saved, but only as one escaping through the flames (1 Corinthians 3:15b). He has nothing but wasted years to look back on and an eternity ahead. When you attempt to gain the best of both worlds, you destroy others beside yourself. What was the greatest pang in Lot’s heart when he awoke there in the cave in the mountains and learned what he had done? Do you think it was grief over his lost wealth that troubled his mind? Don’t you think that the greatest, deepest wound of all in that man’s heart was the recognition of what he had done, in Sodom, to his little girls?
Children are watching their parents. They may see outward respectability & desire to be right and to do good. But in some of you, they also see that the deepest thing in your life is to get $ or to enjoy pleasure. They see that you will quickly sacrifice a prayer meeting for a night out. The willingness to take the $ or pleasure, regardless of what it may do to the family They see the things sacrificed and the willingness to skimp and save, but not for God. They watch, and they see.
Bit by bit these children lose interest in the Bible, church & God. They resolve to get ahead in the world and win the respect of Sodom no matter what moral restraint they have to abandon. And too late, parents discover they too, have abused their own kids.
