I grew up as an only child, so I didn\u2019t have to suffer through arguments with siblings about who got to ride in the front seat of the car or who should choose where the family should go to dinner or whose turn it was to clean the bathroom. That being said, my extended family is huge, with a multitude of aunts, uncles, and cousins. We always have so much fun together, but having a big family doesn\u2019t come without its fair share of bickering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When Abram left Egypt, he took his nephew Lot with him. Along with Lot came his wife, his livestock, and all of his herdsmen. We don\u2019t have an exact number of just how many people were traveling with Abram and Lot, but we can assume that it was quite a crowd\u2014enough that the land couldn\u2019t support them if they continued to travel together (Genesis 13:6). Not only were they having trouble with the logistics of traveling with so many people and keeping all the people and animals fed, there were also conflicts arising among the men in charge of Abram and Lot\u2019s livestock. In the wake of disagreement, Abram made what was probably a tough, but necessary, decision. He told Lot that in order to keep their herdsmen from fighting, they needed to separate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
God promised this land to Abram, but Abram extended the choice to Lot. And he didn\u2019t offer a choice between the bad portions of the land; Abram offered him land in whichever direction Lot chose. Looking at Abram, I see that maybe he didn\u2019t have to worry that he was being too generous because he understood that all the wealth of the promise came from God. It was Abram\u2019s promise to receive, and it was also his treasure to share generously. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And ultimately, it wasn\u2019t his wealth to hold onto anyway. God had richly blessed Abram, and Abram followed in step by richly blessing another. Even after Lot left, God continued to reaffirm His promise to Abram: \u201cfor I will give you and your offspring forever all the land that you see\u201d (Genesis 13:15). So Abram built an altar to God and continued to worship him, knowing that His promises are faithful and true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I grew up as an only child, so I didn\u2019t have to suffer through arguments with siblings about who got to ride in the front seat of the car or who should choose where the family should go to dinner or whose turn it was to clean the bathroom. That being said, my extended family […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":71766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genesis25"],"acf":{"hero_background_image":false,"related_plans":[71878],"weekly_truth":false,"grace_day":false,"share_text":"She Reads Truth","devotional_text":"ABRAM AND LOT<\/b>
\r\nby Ellen Taylor<\/i>
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I grew up as an only child, so I didn\u2019t have to suffer through arguments with siblings about who got to ride in the front seat of the car or who should choose where the family should go to dinner or whose turn it was to clean the bathroom. That being said, my extended family is huge, with a multitude of aunts, uncles, and cousins. We always have so much fun together, but having a big family doesn\u2019t come without its fair share of bickering.<\/p>
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When Abram left Egypt, he took his nephew Lot with him. Along with Lot came his wife, his livestock, and all of his herdsmen. We don\u2019t have an exact number of just how many people were traveling with Abram and Lot, but we can assume that it was quite a crowd\u2014enough that the land couldn\u2019t support them if they continued to travel together (Genesis 13:6). Not only were they having trouble with the logistics of traveling with so many people and keeping all the people and animals fed, there were also conflicts arising among the men in charge of Abram and Lot\u2019s livestock. In the wake of disagreement, Abram made what was probably a tough, but necessary, decision. He told Lot that in order to keep their herdsmen from fighting, they needed to separate.<\/p>
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God promised this land to Abram, but Abram extended the choice to Lot. And he didn\u2019t offer a choice between the bad portions of the land; Abram offered him land in whichever direction Lot chose. Looking at Abram, I see that maybe he didn\u2019t have to worry that he was being too generous because he understood that all the wealth of the promise came from God. It was Abram\u2019s promise to receive, and it was also his treasure to share generously.<\/p>
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And ultimately, it wasn\u2019t his wealth to hold onto anyway. God had richly blessed Abram, and Abram followed in step by richly blessing another. Even after Lot left, God continued to reaffirm His promise to Abram: \u201cfor I will give you and your offspring forever all the land that you see\u201d (Genesis 13:15). So Abram built an altar to God and continued to worship him, knowing that His promises are faithful and true.<\/p>","share_image_height":"640","day_number":"9","scripture":"Genesis 12:10-20, Genesis 13:1-18, Genesis 14:1-24, 1 Timothy 6:11-19","available":true,"ad_banner_name":"","ad_banner_image":false,"ad_banner_url":"","songs":"","key_verse":"","key_verse_reference":"","background_image":false,"background_color":"#FBF7F3","scripture_references":false,"share_image":false,"author_name":"","author_bio":"","guest_social_media":false,"show_ad":true,"ad_override":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}