8 So Abram said to Lot, a“Please let there be no strife between you and me, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are brethren.
9aIs not the whole land before you? Please bseparate from me. cIf youtake the left, then I will go to the right; or, if yougo to the right, then I will go to the left.”
10 And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all athe plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere (before the Lordbdestroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) clike the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt as you go toward dZoar.
11 Then Lot chose for himself all the plain of Jordan, and Lot journeyed east. And they separated from each other.
12 Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot adwelt in the cities of the plain and bpitched his tent even as far as Sodom.
13 But the men of Sodom awere exceedingly wicked and bsinful against the Lord.
14 And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot ahad separated from him: “Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are—bnorthward, southward, eastward, and westward;
15 for all the land which you see aI give to you and byour descendants forever.
16 And aI will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered.
17 Arise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for I give it to you.”
18aThen Abram moved his tent, and went and bdwelt by the terebinth trees of Mamre, cwhich are in Hebron, and built an daltar there to the Lord.
What is the least important aspect of faith? Eyesight. God is telling us that Lot lived by sight, not by faith. Even though God saved him, the man was what we would call today "carnal." Converted, but carnal, just as Paul told the Corinthians in I Corinthians 3, "You are yet carnal." They were converted people, just as Lot was. Lot saw the beauty of the land and realized that it would produce wealth, chosing to ignore the evil that was plainly visible to anyone who cared to notice it.
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