Lot chooses the whole plain of the Jordan and sets out toward the east. The direction — east — has been consistently negative in Genesis: east of Eden, east of Eden for Cain, eastward to Shinar for Babel, and now Lot moves east. The narrator signals the moral direction of the choice before its consequences become clear. Lot gets first choice and chooses the direction that Genesis has coded as movement away from God. Proverbs 14:12 warns that there is a way that appears right to a person, but in the end it leads to death. The plain of Jordan looked right; it leads to Sodom. The application: the direction of a choice matters as much as its immediate attractiveness. Not every option that appears to be a lush plain is moving in the right direction. What direction are the choices you are making right now pointed toward?

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