HAVE YOU EVER...seen the 'Bible'?

I am sure many of you have watched ‘The Bible’ on the History channel over the last month.  I love to “see” how people portray God’s word.  Many with good intentions have made movies about the Bible.  Others had no intentions; maybe money, but still it had to have sewn some seeds. 

So, the show is 2 hours each time it is played.  We Tivo it and watch it later.  Tivo is a way to usually fast forward through the commercials and save time.  Watching ‘The Bible’ still takes us at least 2 hours to watch.  We are following along with our “real” Bible’s from our phones to remember the true stories and compare.  I am thankful for the discerning heart the Lord gave me. 

The second episode had the story of Lot.  It didn’t tell the whole story and what was shown was not how I have always pictured it, but Lot’s wife is what stood out to me.  God has been teaching me to be more of a submissive wife.  This woman was not portrayed as submissive in any way.

The book of Genesis tells us that Lot’s wife; who is nameless, was a Sodomite.  We learn that Sodom was a horrible place.  So horrible that God eventually sends down fire and brimstone from heaven to destroy it.  First mistake, Lot married a woman from Sodom.  Second mistake, they had two daughters.  Third mistake, Lot’s wife turns back to look at the city of Sodom after a warning from the angels.  They save her family, but the mistakes continue even after she is gone.

Legacy.  The Moabites and the Ammonites.  Lot and his wife’s daughters were Sodomites.  Then their grandchildren became more “bad -ites”.  You can read the terrible story in Genesis.  My point is that even after she was gone she left a dreadful legacy.

Lot’s wife turned back and turned into a pillar of salt.  Are you looking back at your mistakes or looking forward to what you need to be preparing for your family? 

Lot made mistakes but was said to have a righteous soul.  My husband makes mistakes, but I know he has a righteous soul.  I pray that the two of us with God are creating a great legacy for our two sons?

HAVE YOU EVER thought about your legacy?

Proverbs 22:6, Ephesians 5:24-25