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“Just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked” (2 Peter 2:7).
Lot was Abraham’s nephew, and he knew the Lord, but when he saw the well-watered area around the river Jordan, he chose that place in which to live. He then “pitched his tent toward Sodom,” even though it was a wicked city. Eventually he ended up living in Sodom, and it seems that he tried to improve the place. But it did not work, and he ended up losing some of his family, including his wife, when God destroyed Sodom.
All this is a solemn warning to us. Like Lot, we may want the advantages that this world offers, but we will find that the world will not improve under our influence. Rather, we will be defiled by all the evil that goes on there. We are to tell them about the Lord Jesus, and how to be saved, but we are not to try and work with the world to improve it. It is far better to be like Abraham, who lived separate from this world, but who was able to show them who the true God was. The people in Sodom did not respect Lot, but the world respected Abraham.
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