Genesis 13:10-18
In verse 10 it says, “Lot lifted up his eyes and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.”
In verse 14 it says, “And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:”
Are you lifting your own eyes like Lot, pitching your tent towards the deceptions of Sodom? The Lord knows destruction is coming no matter how good it looks from a distance. This doesn’t only speak to us of the deceptivness of sin, but even things we do in God’s name. We lift our eyes to do ministry and serve the Lord. It may appear well watered from a distance, but it’s not the promised Canaan land God has for us. Sodom and Gomorrah even once had a form of Godliness being well watered like the garden of Eden. However God saw it was headed for destruction. Where are we pitching our tents?
Or like Abram will you wait to hear the Lord finally say, “Lift up now thine eyes.” To wait until the Lord says, “arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.” Lot chose the plain of Jordan in his own strength. Abram was given the plain of Mamre (fatness) by the word of the Lord.
Who’s lifting your eyes?
Death to Self Devotional 
Lot’s well-known foolish decision to settle in Sodom and Gomorrah nearly cost him his life. He lost his wife and his two sons-in-law. Lot and his two daughters barely escaped with their lives when the wrath of God fell as fire and brimstone.
We can live by the flesh or we can live by the Spirit. We can live by physical sight or we can live by spiritual sight. Living by the flesh is short-sighted and will eventually lead to our destruction. Living by the Spirit or by spiritual sight (faith) will always lead us into the promised land of God’s Presence. Abiding in God’s Presence will always give us protection and provision in our daily lives, even in the midst of external turmoil and attacks by Satan.
Physical Sight and Spiritual Sight
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Love of the World is Like Marrying a Beautiful But Dead Woman
The late great Nigerian evangelist and revivalist Joseph Ayo Babalola once had a prophetic vision which highlighted to him the futility of chasing after the world:
I saw a man dancing and rejoicing because he was getting married. When we got there, we saw a dead woman, most beautiful in the world. This man was dancing and rejoicing greatly. When I asked the Lord for the interpretation, the Lord said the dead woman represents the world and the joyous man represents the people in the world that love the world. Whoever loves the world and its riches is married to a dead. Don’t love the world or anything in it because the world has died and a dead cannot do any good thing. There is nothing to enjoy in the dead.
Prophetic Vision of Joseph Ayo Babalola
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