For Christmas, 1976, my grandparents, Dean and Thelma McCament, gave me a wonderful book I just recently got around to reading. It was written by F.B. Meyer (1847-1929) and is entitled Great Verses Through the Bible.
It contains wonderfully applicable devotional thoughts from every chapter of the Bible! Dr. Meyer’s comments concerning Lot and Abraham, from Genesis 13, really hit home. I’ll simply summarize them here:
“Has the voice of God long been silent to thee — no fresh command, no deeper insight into truth? Separate thyself not only from what is clearly wrong, but from all that is questionable, and the Lord will speak to thee things it is not possible for a man to utter (express)…Whatever Abraham renounced, when he left his home or gave Lot the right to choose, he received back in the usual measure of God, with an overflowing overplus (more than what he actually needed). God gave him the entire land, including Lot’s portion. We can never give up for God, without receiving in this life more than we gave.”