Their new families knew nothing of Abraham or God's covenant or the life of a pilgrim and the more his daughters settled into their new life with their new husbands the harder it was for Lot himself to remember such things. This had become his world, it was normal to him, and he couldn't imagine leaving it or that he should have to leave it. The number of men, Christian men and women, who will turn away from large profits and from the life of success and ease and from prospects for their children and willingly the suffer the loss of all of this simply to satisfy a troubled conscience is very, very small. It has always been a very small number, as it is today. Now, what we have in this account of Lot and his family is but one illustration of a reality that is addressed many times and in many ways in the Bible.
Salvation is by grace and grace alone.
But, the Lord does know how to deliver the godly and he does whatever that deliverance requires, even if he has to burn up all that we possess and all that tempts us with fire and brimstone. Turning lush green grass into the most arid, most lifeless desert in the world. But, take note, brothers and sisters. This history is not recorded for us to encourage us, to hearten us, to console us with the knowledge that his angels are near to lay hold of us and draw us out of danger before it is too late. For the affair is far too dishonorable and disgusting for that and the losses are too steep for that.