Week 2 Genesis 19
I was barreling through psalm 9 today not really slowing down until near the end: the wicked will go down to the grave. This is the fate of all the nations who ignore God.
The thing about “nations” caught my attention. Whatever-all interest the Lord has in the actions of individual people he’s also monitoring what countries are up to.
I scan back through chapter 9 and see that some nations will end up in trouble: nations have fallen into the pit they dug for others. They have been caught in their own trap.
When I finished psalm 9 I swung over into Genesis 19. It was an unexpected coincidence to be reading one minute about nations that dug themselves into a hole and then Bingo! – the next minute I’m reading Sodom & Gomorrah.
S&G aren’t nations. They’re maybe something more like city-states – primitive municipal corporations. But whatever they were when Lot had moved into Sodom he discovered that: the people of that area were unusually wicked and sinned greatly against the Lord. So before Lot arrived the people of S&G were already well along the way to digging their own graves.
Afterwards I wonder about 21st century dictatorial countries. Police states. Criminal regimes. I wonder if they have big excavations on the go. Ready-and-waiting to receive guests.
I wonder what kind of pit Canada is digging these days. Not a happy thought. But there’s no reason to think we have an exemption.
Note: quote from Psalm 9:17 15 & Genesis 13:13 (NLT)