Day 2 - Do Not Linger Your Faith

 

Day 2

Do Not Linger Your Faith

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In Genesis 19:16, it says “But he [Lot] lingered.” Lot lingers and is hesitant to accept the salvation offered by God to him. As a consequence, his wife returned to the life of sin and eventually suffered the wrath of God (Genesis 19:26); his children became ignorant to the truth, and thus committed sin also against their own father (Genesis 19:30); and lastly, Lot failed to attain the full highest potential of God’s promise for him (as a result of his Uncle Abraham’s faith). He settled for less in the plain areas, when God told him to go to the high lands and be saved.

As you see, God’s invitation to His Kingdom is for everyone. However, doubt and hesitations among us Christians, hinders us from growing into faith and discovering the truth of God’s word. The more we linger on deciding if we are truly of God and for God, or otherwise, the more also that we became ignorant of God’s truth and open prey for the enemy to taunt us into the life of sin again.

Learning from Lot’s life, his single hesitation results into the falling away of his own family from the faith. Same way, our hesitations will not only draw our own setbacks from God, but also harm our very family because they are looking up on our own life. (Please see Matthew 5:14-16 and Hebrews 12:13)

In conclusion, we have to have a radical decision to choose God’s side above all else.