Abram and Lot



     Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him.  Abram had become very rich because he had a lot of livestock, silver, and gold.
     Abram went from place to place until he arrived at Bethel where he had first built an altar.  There Abram called on the name of the LORD.
    Lot also had a lot of flocks, herds, and tents.





    Abram and Lot had so many possessions that the land could not support them as long as they stayed together.   And quarreling broke out between Abram's herdsmen and the herdsmen of Lot.  The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.





      So Abram told Lot that they shouldn't be quarrling and that they should part company.  Abram told Lot that if he chose to go to the left, he would  go to the right; if he chose to go to the right, he would go to the left.
    Lot looked and saw how well watered the whole plain of the Jordan was.






    So, Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east.  So, Abram and Lot parted company:




    Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom.  The men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.






    The LORD spoke to Abram after Lot had parted from him and told him to look north and south, east and west.  All the land that he saw the LORD  would give to him and his offspring  forever.  The LORD would would make his offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then his offspring could be counted.  God told Abram to walk through the whole  land, for the LORD was giving Abram this land.
    So Abram moved his tents and went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.





CONCLUSSION:  Abram lived in Hebron.  God told him that He would give him the land.  Abram trusted God to take care of him.  Lot had been given a chance to choose where to live.  He looked over the land and found the best.  Would you have made the same choice as Lot?  Abram let Lot have the land he wanted.  He probably did it to keep peace, but Abram also knew that every blessing comes from God.  God could take care of him whatever land he had chosen.  Abram was also a peacemaker.  A peacemaker is someone who tries to keep peace between people. 

If you were given the opportunity of choosing a place to live,  would you choose the better place or trust God to take care of you no matter where you went?


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