A Bold Witness or a Fake?
As I read the book of Genesis, I came across the story of a fellow called Lot, Abraham's nephew. In today's story we find a typical example of a double standard life, We read in Genesis 19:1-9 of a horrendous case of a group of cities where there were no boundaries or sanity, especially when it related to sex - immorality prevailed.
Abraham's nephew, Lot, got caught in the middle of it, but did little about it. I believe that from day one it was obvious to Lot that the land was filled with immorality, and there was no indication that Lot did anything (like witnessing to them) about it until the angels arrived in Sodom. Then the men of the city surrounded Lot's house, and demanded the angels brought out so they "could have relations with them." Suddenly Lot became willing to speak out, not in a bold way as we would expect from a believer in the G-d of Abraham, but with a ridiculous offer to the man of the land. His solution: "take my two virgin daughters!" What a shocking offer! How low Lot's moral values had gone. The very man, who may have stimulated his daughters to remain virgins, now offered them to perverts who delighted themselves in having "relations with men." The very person who was supposed to protect the girls (his daughters) now betrayed them. His moral values were so corrupted that it shows how little he thought of his daughters at this crucial moment. No wonder he wasn't a bold witness. Such a suggestion outraged the local homo lovers (v9).
Today in society we have the same double standard. Christians are often ridiculed when they stand for Biblical principles, and very often by the "Lots" of life.
May our faith be bold, may we be willing to take a stand for what G-d thinks is right, may we line up with the Holy Bible and not with what some network "nuts" think is right. Sodom will be destroyed anyway, so may we line up with the word of G-d and be a bold witness, not a fake.
In His service, your fellow servant, Pr. Paul Santos