Why Christians look a whole lot like Lot

"And...then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city. And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city" (Gen. 19:15-16).

Living among wicked people in Sodom, Lot lost his moral compass. Lot went to Sodom looking for physical prosperity and found it at the price of losing touch with spiritual reality. He gained a prominent position in Sodom, but had little godly influence over his family. And when God in his mercy revealed to Lot that he was getting ready to burn up Sodom, Lot lingered in the city.

The average Christian today looks a whole lot like Lot. God's fire alarm is blaring but there still in bed with the world. The Apostle Paul wrote to the Christians in his day, "And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed" (Rom. 13:11-12). What happen to Lot is the same thing that was happening to the Christians in Paul's day and to Christians in our day. He was lulled to sleep by the world. And because like Lot, Christians today are so entangled in the world, so capture by it, they have little concern for eternal matters. They might say that they care about the lost with their lips but their actions say otherwise. Paul went on to write, "The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. 13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. 14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof" (Rom. 13:12-14).

How will we ever have a sense of urgency for the things of God if we are wallowing in the filth of this world--If we are not taking time to put on Christ--to be transformed by the renewing of our minds through the word of God. We must get our eyes and minds off this world and focus on eternal matter's. It's time that Christians wake up from their spiritual slumber. "Look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh" (Luke 21:28).