The story of Lot becomes a prayer
Genesis 19:15-16 “As morning dawned, the angels urged Lot saying, ‘Up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city.’ But he lingered, so the [angels] seized him and his wife and two daughters by the hand, the Lord being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.”
Hebrews 13:12-13 “Therefore, Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside the gate. So let us go out to him outside the [city] bearing his reproach.”
Lord, would you be merciful to me as you once were to Lot. You have told me, “Up!” but I have lingered. So now take me by the hand (for I have need of aid) and set me outside the city. You say to follow you outside the city walls where we will die (as you did), and yet live ever-after, having escaped being swept away in the punishment of the city. I want to die to myself, cast off the idol that is my vanity, and so live unto you. Come and help me, Spirit. My heart is willing but my flesh is weak. I seek holiness! Command what thou wilt, but give what thou commandest. Perfect are the good desires you have given me, be their end as you have been their beginning.
