13:8,9
One of the great dangers of wealth is that it gets a hold of us and instead of being a servant, something we use in order to do good, we become its servant. Wealth had not got a hold of Abram. First, he wanted to avoid strife. He saw relationships as more important than things. Putting things before people can lead to breakdown in relationships, and evil in society. Then Abram does not hold on to his wealth. He lets Lot have the first choice of which way to go. If we hold on tightly to things we have a habit of crushing them, and they us. Abram was willing to let go.
13:10,11
Wealth can become an addiction, with us wanting ever more and more of it. Lot’s life seems to have been dictated by this, at least to some extent. He “saw that the Jordan Valley was well watered”, and so he chose that direction and headed east. There was a problem, Sodom and Gomorrah were situated in that land, and they would later be destroyed for their evil. So Abram and Lot separated. However, as we will soon see, Abram did not give up caring for Lot.
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