Moving Day

Genesis 19:15-16

My sons used to tell their friends how many times that we have moved as a family from one place to another. It had reached mind-boggling status until when we moved to Bloomington. Now we have been here a few years, and I am not looking forward to moving! Someone told me once that ‘three moves equal a burnout’. They meant that so many items are broken, lost, or destroyed in a move.

I do not enjoy moving! I hate boxing everything up and then trying to unpack it and put in a new place. Every time we have moved, we have had to make some decisions. There were some things we took with us, and there was some things that we left behind.

In our text this morning, Lot was instructed to take his wife and his two daughters and get out of Sodom. We would not have to read very far to find out that Lot was to take some things with him and at the same time he was to leave everything else behind.

We are entering into a new year. 1996! As we move into the new year let’s consider what we need to take with us, and what we need to leave behind

I. SOME THINGS TO TAKE WITH US

II. SOME THINGS TO LEAVE BEHIND

If you are not a Christian today, why not come to Christ and leave behind your old life and be born again? Trust in Him today! Christian, what kind of spirit will we bring into the new year? Are there some things we need to leave behind? Why not come today?