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It has often been the vexatious lot of good men to live among wicked neighbours, to sojourn in Mesech (Ps 120:5), and it cannot but be the more grievous, if, as Lot here, they have brought it upon themselves by an unadvised choice.
14 And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from
him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
We have here an account of a gracious visit which God paid to Abram, to confirm the promise to him and his. Observe,
When it was that God renewed and ratified the promise: After that Lot was separated from him, that is,
1. After the quarrel was over; for those are best prepared for the visits of divine grace whose spirits are calm and sedate, and not ruffled with any passion.
2. After Abram's humble self-denying condescensions to Lot for the preserving of peace. It was then that God came to him with this token of his favour. Note, God will abundantly make up in spiritual peace what we lose for the preservation of neighbourly peace. When Abram had willingly offered Lot one-half of his right, God came, and confirmed the whole to him.
3. After he had lost the comfortable society of his kinsman, by whose departure his hands were weakened and his heart was saddened, then God came to him with these good words and comfortable words. Note, Communion with God may, at any time, serve to make up the want of conversation with our friends; when our relations are separated from us, yet God is not.
4. After Lot had chosen that pleasant fruitful vale, and had gone to take possession of it, lest Abram should be tempted to envy him and to repent that he had given him the choice, God comes to him, and assures him that what he had should remain to him and his heirs forever; so that, though Lot perhaps had the better