Conversation with God: That Thing You Do
About that indecision problem we talked about the other day; how do you tolerate this embarrassing trait that I have? Because you have that Abraham thing working for you. What thing? You know, the whole you go left, then I will go right, if you go right, then I'll go... ...Oh, the Abraham & Lot story. Yeah, that's it. I recall Abraham struggling all night about this. He wrestled with his indecision. Should he take his family left towards Sodom or right toward the mountains. Left, right, left, right...all night long. Now, when I read that passage Abraham didn't make a decision. He left the decision up to Lot. In fact, it reads... Genesis 13:9 Is not the whole land before you? Let's part company. If you go to the left, I'll go to the right; if you go to the right, I'll go to the left. 10 Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This wa...