Yesterday, we had an absolutely amazing Chapel speaker (at least in my opinion).  He was talking about making a difference in the world and somehow he kinda got off on a tangent having to do with Lot.  Oh that’s why…he was talking about the Bible character that he used to be the most like, because he resisted change and discomfort.  He started off by talking about how when the angels came to him and told him to leave he tried to put off and even ignore it.  And when they finally did go, it was at the last possible moment and only because the angels grabbed them and “pushed” them out of the city.  He mentioned Lot’s wife saying, “How could God expect for Lot and his family to be able to run away from their home city and not look back?”  and he said, “He didn’t.  God didn’t expect it from anyone.  Because God told them to leave the night before when it would be dark and looking back would have been useless.”  He expanded on this saying that often times we blame God for things that happen to us because we were in the wrong place at the wrong time.  hmm…I know I have.
      And then he talked about something else that I have come to learn about in the past couple of months.  He talked about how Lot was told by the angels to go to the mountains when he left Sodom and Gomorrah but instead he wanted to leave and go to this little town called Zoar (which literally translated means “little”).  The angels basically said that because he was going to go there they would destroy it, even though they had planned to initially.  He said that because he didn’t go straight to the mountains like he was told he ended up settling for something that was equally as wicked as the first city that he was removed from.  And that he had also camped himself in a place where he could still see the city that he was told not to look back on.  Eventually that town became so wicked he had to move from that one as well, but this time he had no angels with him. 

I know that recently I have had to realize that I was settling for something less that what God had called me to…Nursing v/s Doctor.  But there are also other things in my life that I have had to RUN!! to the mountains from simply because I knew that if I stopped anywhere in the middle I would be overtaken by it again.  This has been a very hard lesson but I know that in the mountains I am safe.  =)

Sorry this is so long…I was just really impacted by it and I hope you at least got a taste of it.
Ashley