Redemption

He was the nephew of Abraham and his story is quite sordid.

• He gave his daughters to be sexually abused by men of the city.
• He commits incest with them in a drunken state.

Reading his story in Genesis 18 and 19 clearly shows a man who is wicked and certainly not righteous. And so these verses are peculiar:-

“… if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)— if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials … (2 Peter 2 v 7-9)

Peculiar but amazing because of its redemption.

This was certainly not Lot’s righteousness. He hadn’t done anything righteous. And of course neither have we.

Lot was influenced by the city he lived in. And we too are influenced by the society we live in.

Our sins may not be as dark as Lot’s but nonetheless we are foolish and we fail.

We are not righteous.

Yet Lot’s soul was tormented, he had conviction. And we too feel that conviction when we sin.

The Bible calls us (who put our faith in Him) righteous as Peter does about Lot not because of our actions but because of the Lord’s. It is His grace and mercy.

This is the redemptive story.