Genesis 19: 19-21
"...I can't flee to the mountains. ... Here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it--it is very small, isn't it? Then my life will be spared." He said to him, "Very well, I will grant this request, too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of." ... (That is why the town was renamed Zoar.)
V. 30
Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave.
Lot didn't want to go to the mountains like he was told to do, and so Bela's name was changed to Zoar, meaning "small" (see Genesis 14:1, 8), and it was the only town in that whole plain that was left intact; everywhere else around it was totally destroyed.
So now these village people probably blamed Lot for the disaster, not realizing that it was because of him that they were still alive. So he feared for his life there, and ended up in the mountains, after all.
Lot was a city guy, but God wanted him in the mountains. How often do I not go where God says, and delay God's plan for me? How often do I just stay where I am and not get off my duff and do what He has shown me to do?
O my Father, strengthen me to go and do what You want me to do, not procrastinate and delay and put it off. Help me, Father, for I am weak. My strength is only in You.
Then allow me to accomplish what You have placed before me; to not bang on the door you have closed, but to see and enter through the door You have opened before me, no matter how scary it looks to me.
Let my confidence in You give me the boldness to enter in, and do what my hand finds to do, even if I never did it this way before.
And may You get all the credit, all the honor, all the glory, all the praise, as You are the One Who has planned it all out and designed it to work this way.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
