Category: Running Ahead Of Your Shadow.

“6 Now the land was not able to support them, that they might dwell together, for  their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together.

7 And there was strife  between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites then dwelt in the land. 

8 So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no strife between you and me, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are brethren.

9 Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me. If you take the left, then I will go to the right; or, if you go to the right, then I will go to the left.”

10 And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere (before the LORD destroyed Sodom and  Gomorrah) like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt as you go toward Zoar.

11 Then Lot chose for himself all the plain of Jordan, and Lot journeyed east. And they separated from each other.

12 Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent even as far as Sodom.

13 But the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinful against the LORD.”

I once worked in a place, where the Boss employed his friend’s younger brother. The employed brother later instigated the transfer of His helper ‘in quote’ from that same location, and he took his place. All the same, it never ended well with him, he landed in fraudulence activities and was handed over to the police, stop running ahead of your shadow.

Lot felt he was wiser than his uncle, Abraham, who took him along in his journey, fed him, made him blessed and great. He was proving smarter by choosing the fertile land for himself. Ingrate only sees the physical because of their eagerness to acquire wealth. They can’t see the traps ahead of their decisions because their decisions are based on selfishness. Abraham was a wise man who presented an open cheque to Lot but he failed. He thought he was smarter than Abraham and the God that worked out the separation between the two. He fell into the wrong land and Abraham still became he’s deliverer.

Don’t try to go ahead of your pathfinder, as God and man. There’s no how you can be knowledgeable than those who God used  to made you and helping you. Stop running ahead of your shadows. Keep following and remain grateful always. There’s always a result for an ingrate and the grateful, choose what you want. Have a wonderful weekend ahead.