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Genesis 13:5-13, “Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks and herds and tents. Now the land was not able to support them, that they might dwell together, for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together. And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites then dwelt in the land.

So Abram said to Lot, ‘Please let there be no strife between you and me, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are brethren. Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me. If you take the left, then I will go to the right; or, if you go to the right, then I will go to the left.’ And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere (before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt as you go toward Zoar. Then Lot chose for himself all the plain of Jordan, and Lot journeyed east.

And they separated from each other. Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent even as far as Sodom. But the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinful against the Lord.”

Genesis 13:14-18, “And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him: ‘Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are - northward, southward, eastward, and westward; for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever. And I 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. Arise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for I give it to you.’ Then Abram moved his tent, and went and dwelt by the terebinth trees of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to the Lord.”

“And the Lord said to Abram…” Keep in mind, this act of God stepping into the life of Abram was not predicated upon anything Abram had done. He had not built an altar and he wasn’t presently “calling on the name of the Lord.” As a matter of fact, Abram has just allowed the temporal things of the world (what he’d procured in Egypt) to separate he and Lot.

Notice how God begins, “Lift up your eyes now…” In the original Hebrew this word “now” is rather unique. As a matter of fact Hebrew scholars really aren’t sure how to translate this word - especially in the context of this passage. The best they’ve been able to come up with is that the word should be translated as “please now…” You see the word seems to imply that, in this instance, God is in actuality pleading with Abram to “lift up his eyes.”

Why would God be pleading with Abram to do this? Think about it… God called Abram out of Ur promising to provide he and his descendants a land. What does he do? Abram leaves Ur, but travels only as far as Haran before settling there for several decades.

Then, following the death of his father Terah, God again calls Abram to leave Haran reiterating all of His original promises. And what does he do? Abram is obedient to enter the land only to then immediately bail and move to Egypt the moment the going got tough.

Now that Abram has finally returned to the land God had promised him (mainly because Pharaoh had kicked him out of Egypt) what do we find him doing? He’s giving the land away to his nephew Lot! The simple truth is that Abram is making God’s work difficult!

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