In the Bible have told the stories of several men who knew and loved God They were neither perfect nor infallible, have had their ups and downs, their wins and their weaknesses, just like us.
We will teach you a lot, since, like them, we sin, doubt and, at times, we struggle against what God asks of us. Their experiences will help us. Discover how God helped them and used and how it can do the same with us.
start with Abraham.
He lived in Ur, in Chaldea, and had 75 years when God called him to leave his country and to come to the land of Canaan, who would become his home and the home of the jew people who have descended from him. Obeyed God without hesitation and left with his wife Sara and their relatives, including a nephew Lot, without knowing exactly where God would send. His long and beautiful story is in the Genesis, the first book of the Bible.
The fertile land of Canaan was Abraham and Lot became rich and had much cattle. At one point, the area became quite narrow and their shepherds who tended the flocks and herds began to quarrel.
"This place is ours, we come before us ..." "But our sheep outnumber ..."," We work for Abraham, who is more important than Lot ... "Abraham was a
man of peace, and said to Lot, "There is no need to quarrel. Let us separate. There is room for everyone. If you go right I go left or vice versa. Choose your destination and there will be strife. "
Lot
thought the idea was good and he chose to go to a plain rich, fertile and pleasant, where there were also the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, which, as the Bible says it was inhabited by "wicked people". Abraham remained in the most mountainous.
Lot sat in a number of trouble and found himself embroiled in a war between various kings of the area and was taken prisoner. Abraham went to free him and gained a great victory.
When Abraham was nearly one hundred years, was visited by three angels who had the likeness of men. Abraham welcomed them with generous hospitality Eastern Europe, and they said to him that within a year, his wife Sara had a baby, the heir to both desired, although it was old. The great promise of God that Abraham would have an offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven would finally come true!
When parted, Abraham accompanied the men as they made their way to Sodom. At that point, God revealed to Abraham that he would destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, because of the sin of their inhabitants. The thought of Abraham ran to Lot.
"thou shalt thou destroy the righteous with the wicked? Perhaps there are fifty righteous within the city really do die too? Do not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are there? Never let it be for you to do such a thing! "Said Abraham, turning to God
God replied, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous, will forgive the whole place for the sake of their" .
Abraham insists: "Maybe there will be forty-five ..."
And God: "If there will be forty-five not do it."
Abraham continued: "If there were forty ... thirty ... twenty ... ten ... "
God always gives the same answer:" If there are, I will not. " At that point, the intercession of Abraham Abraham stops and goes home.
If he continued to pray as far as saying: "If there was one ..." as it would end? Cities sinful would have been spared? A just, in fact, was: God spared Lot and his family.
Judgement on Sodom and Gomorrah, however, was terrible. The Bible says: "Abraham rose early in the morning ... looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the plain, and here he saw a smoke rising from the earth, like smoke from a furnace " (Genesis 19:27). The city and its inhabitants were destroyed with fire and brimstone.
Abraham would continue to pray? I think so.
The sin of the cities we know well. Today is respected and accepted by many. But the assessment of God in this regard is very clear in the Bible (Letter of Paul to the Romans, chapter 1). and has not changed. It's an eternal word.
Abraham prayed for Sodom and Gomorrah, and, at one point, he stopped. Perhaps it is discouraged and no longer wanted to bother the Lord. We want to do otherwise and continue to intercede for those who do not live according to God's plan
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