It's Just A Little!

Genesis 19:20 Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one : Oh let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live".

We are children of the most high God. With this comes a certain responsibility and commitment. We are the called of God to be a light upon a hill, called to bear fruit and fruit that will last. We have been instructed to flee to the mountain yet many have settled in the plains. There is a danger of settling in the plains, So let us flee to the mountain and get closer to God.

In our text today we have the all to familiar story of Lott and Sodom and Gomorrah. God had warned Lott that He was going to destroy the city because of  it's wickedness. He told Lott to get his family and flee to the mountain, but Lott felt he couldn't make it to the mountain, and wanted to settle in the plains. Many today who have been called out of the wickedness of this world have decided to settle in the plains instead of fleeing to the mountain. There is a great danger of settling in the plains. See the plains were too close to Sodom and all the wickedness that was there. Many are too close to sin and the life that God has called them out of to live a life pleasing to God. We leave a life of drugs, but we stay close to fornication and adultery. Like Lott said, it is a little one, many get pulled into a life of sin by the little one. It might be a little affair, a little lie, just a little sin, but remember a little leaven ruins the whole lump. Let us flee the plains and make the uphill journey up the mountain.

The mountain is closer to God and further away from the life we have been called out of. Yes it is harder to climb a mountain than it is to rest in the plain, but God said to flee to the mountain. God is calling us to get closer to Him, to draw neigh to Him that He might draw neigh to us. Let us make the uphill journey to be close to God in all that we do, that we might live a life pleasing to God and bear fruit and fruit that will last.