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《创世记》十九章告诉我们亚伯拉罕的侄儿罗得的悲惨故事。在两个天使到来之前，罗得完全没有察觉到他正身处险境中；他已经习惯了置身邪恶的环境，以致他失去了明察事理的能力。罗得是一个敬畏神的人，可是他却一心二用；他爱主，但他也爱属世的一切。罗得尝试侍奉两个主人，然而，他最终失去了一切他看为宝贵的事。

失败的基督徒生活，极少是由一件突发事件引起的，大多数是透过裂缝慢慢扩张直至破裂的结果。它往往涉及逐步远离神和日益倾向罪恶，就像罗得那样。他和他的家人因同时侍奉于两个主以致无所适从，天使甚至需要拉着他们的手，在那城被剿灭之前领他们出来。

在今天，神的警戒仍然有效：逃离罪恶！在罪恶的魔爪深深抓住你以致你无法摆脱之前，赶快逃跑！逃离罪恶不是懦弱的标志，向罪恶低头才是。我们需要勇气，来承认我们容易受伤害，无法脱离罪恶难以抗拒的魔力。选择跟从耶稣要付很重的代价——然而选择不去跟从祂，要付的代价就更加重了。

Genesis 19 tells the tragic story of Abraham's nephew Lot. Until the arrival of two heavenly messengers, Lot was oblivious to the danger around him. He had gotten so close to sin and evil that he had lost perspective. Lot was a God-fearing man, but he had a divided heart. He loved the Lord, but he also loved the things of the world. Lot tried to serve two masters. But in the end he lost everything that mattered to him.

Failure in the Christian life is seldom the result of a sudden blowout. Most often it is the result of a slow leak. It usually involves a gradual drifting away from God and into sin, as was the case with Lot. He and his family were so torn by their divided loyalties that the heavenly messengers had to lead them by hand out of the city before destruction rained down.

God's exhortation still stands: flee from evil! Flee, before evil gets its claws so deeply embedded into you that you are unable to break free. Running from sin is not the mark of a coward, but yielding to sin is. It takes guts to admit our vulnerability and to flee from sin's overwhelming power. There is a high price in choosing to follow Jesus—but an even higher price in not choosing to follow him.