“Now the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man on the earth to come in to us as is the custom of all the earth. Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve the lineage of our father.” … Then both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father. The firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day. And the younger, she also bore a son and called his name Ben-Ammi; he is the father of the people of Ammon to this day.”
Genesis 19:31-38
As Lot went to the mountain and obeyed God we see his daughters beginning to despair. Lot was learning to trust the Lord but to his shame, and his daughter’s sin, he wasn’t passing on these life lessons to his kids.
Listen closely parents, teachers, youth volunteers and anyone who has any involvement with the next generation. When God is speaking truth and instruction into your life it is of the utmost importance to share that with the children that God has entrusted into your life.
Apparently Lot didn’t reassure his girls that God was in control; his girls then despaired when they considered “the custom of all the earth”.
That’s the way it goes, if we aren’t pumped up with the promises of God that say, “I will never leave you, nor forsake you” (Hebrews 13:5) then we’ll crumble under the customs of this earth that say, “There is no help for him in God.” (Psalm 3:2). The daughters of Lot heard those voices, they obeyed the fleshy temptation to trust in their own ingenuity because they were ignorant to the Glory and intimate promise of God’s loving provision. Their flesh gave birth to sin (James 1:14-15) and their sin gave birth to death in a very real way. For the boys that they gave birth to would later be the fathers of two nations (Moab and Ammon) who would terrorize and oppress the nation of Israel (who in reality was their own family, being that Lot and Abraham where uncle and nephew). Whenever we satisfy the desires of the flesh we will always grieve and terrorize the Spirit of the Lord and the family of God.
I cannot emphasize enough the blessings you give to your children when you teach them the ways of the Lord. Something will be taught to them every day of their lives, and if it isn’t the truth of the Lord then it’s the Lies of this world or “the custom of all the earth”. If we aren’t doing our job to prepare them then we are allowing them to fall into the bondage and destructive ways of this world.
“Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
Proverbs 22:6
You’ll come to see that those of us who have been encouraged and nurtured in God’s truth will have a huge advantage when we come to those “cave-like” times, preventing the opportunity for the temptation of the flesh, the enemy, and this world to wreck our lives.
