Abram & Lot

What a messy relationship that was I thought. I was starting to ramble down an answer to a question and it just came out different than I thought the school might want so I had to re-write it. Still, I didn't want to delete it cause I like it so here are the answers that our Counselor helped me with.

The question on the sheet was:
Compare & contrast the personalities & spiritul characteristics of Abram & Lot.

Answer: Though both started out knee-deep in the human condition, Abram grew through trials into a spiritually mature man whose focus was God above all else. Lot, by contrast, did not make the right choices even after repeated failures. He couldn't see what Abram could. His eyes where of the world and as such only saw the world. Abram could see more with his spiritual eyes and as we know their is so much to see. Lot was also a tempermental and greedy man where as Abram was (or had become) a comprimising and giving man who would not sell his soul for a coin or a crown. Perhaps Lot was not a complete lose but by comparison or contrast they are hardly a personality or spiritual match regardless of their similar beginings.

Original Answer: Abram is water to Lots fire. Fire burns and consumes and leaves nothing behind. It lives only for its needs and moves in the direction of most abundant supply. Water by contrast moves where it should it adapts but doesn't change. When it comes into contact with something other than itself it can absorb and become diluted, but will always have the ability through hands not of its own to be purified. Even more so when fire is extinguished it is gone and leaves nothing but destruction. Water is renewed in its cycle it does not end. It may be stagnant or rushing by but it will one day evaporate or return to the earth to seemingly pass away but infact carry on the journey in another form. Such are the lives of sinner and saved.

Moreover on the same topic it is nice to spend time watching those of spiritual maturity, not perfection just maturity. It's nice to see someone else reaching for a bar set just as high as they can jump if they reach and strain. Which is what we should all be doing, reaching and straining. It is also interesting to spend time looking at the relationship these two shared. One, a man of God and striving for that purpose. The other, a man of this world and stiving for it. Both started out in the human condition and both know of God. Still, one turns away and the other toward. That is the everyday in our lives though, what is interesting is that Abram never seemed to lose his love and hope. You can say it is becasue Lot was like a son to him and I can't argue that as it was true. But perhaps it makes more sence and helps our journey to think in a more general way. I assume we have all met those we want a better life for. People who might be family, firends, or just someone we read/heard about. People we have tracked and traced while trying our best to shine of Gods glory in efforts to make a difference in where they will end up. Abram was tracking Lot. He took him in out of many possible reasons and from that point kept him close until Lot gave him no option. Even then Lot would have been lost to the wolfs had Abram not been moved to the cause of his salvation. Knowing that Lot lost everything to the sin he tracked but still holding him up when he is fallen and bringing him home when he is lost. Sounds like a comparison to me. (o_-) ( That was supposed to be a wink.) Galations 6:1-2

Anyway, I forgot my point. I guess I hope we all get that chance in life. For most people it will be their children as I'm sure my parents can attest, but it doesn't need to start or stop there. Ok, ok. Enough of that. Back to work.