And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord: Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die: Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.---(Genesis 19:17-20)
Read the whole story, it does not go well for Lot, ending up with an incestuous relationship with his daughters that birthed the fathers of Israel's enemies to this day...
Why do I point that out?
LSU fans were looking forward to a great season. Traditionally, 2 weeks before the first game of the season, our football team breaks curfew and gets stupid 'til about midnight. They get caught, they run laps, boys will be boys...right? This year has it running 'til the wee hours of the morning and ending up with four players in a fight and in trouble with the law. Now two are out on bail, arrested for felony battery. If convicted, their football careers, their free rides through college are gone...done finished, period, the end.
Their lawyer is already feeding the classic line..."(The police) ruined the kids' careers."
Male bovine effluvium...
A conscious decision on their parts---a wrong one---snowballed, leading to other conscious decisions on their parts that led to the final decisions that ruined their lives...period. This is yet another classic example of "The Garden Syndrome"...Adam busily blaming God for the woman He gave him, whilst Eve blames a snake...it's always someone else's fault, never mine. Go ahead and plan on standing before the Great White Throne on that one...
Your sin ripples through life and eternity like a stone tossed in a pond, ever spreading out and affecting anyone and everyone around you. Picture it this way...two boneheads won't yield on the Interstate, ending up in a fender bender that ties up traffic for miles. Before God, they are accountable for all the gas, all the lost wages, all the business expenses, all the wear on the vehicles, all the cost of clearing the road and posting law enforcement, all the resulting road rage, all the missed appointments, all the grief that anger generated from this event inflicts on the lives of others, all the pollutants, all the lost commerce...shall I go on?
Whatever it is, get it right...now...before you find out how you look in a tangerine jumpsuit...and ultimately, whether Hell is real or a Victorian concept created to keep the masses under control---a place you could have avoided, if you had repented of...
...those little sins.
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