SECOND-HAND FAITH

So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him.
Genesis 13:1

The sidebar to the story of Abraham is the story of Lot – Abraham’s nephew, the son of his brother Haran. We know that Haran died young, and perhaps Abraham adopted Lot, it’s hard to know. We do
know that when Abraham left Ur and came to Canaan, he took Lot with him, and when they found themselves in a famine, Lot went
with Abraham to Egypt. *Lot’s guidance came from what God told Abraham*

Lot’s value came from hanging around Abraham. The problem is that Lot did not know God for himself. While Abraham got direction from God, Lot just followed Abraham. While Abraham experienced God directly, *Lot’s relationship was
second-hand.*

His faith was only experienced in the slipstream of
Abraham’s relationship with God.
God calls us primarily to Himself. He may use others to help us get to know Him, but ultimately we must be weaned from them and
have our own relationship with God that is direct and personal. Lot failed to do this. When Lot became separated from Abraham, he had no personal relationship with God himself and inevitably spiraled away and ended up in Sodom, living in sin and despair and Abraham had to come and rescue him from Sodom.

The work of God in other people to help us can
never be a substitute for our own personal walk with God.

Do you have a first-hand or second-hand relationship with God?

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, please help me to know you personally in Jesus mighty name....Amen.

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