Sodom Today

“As he looked down towards Sodom and Gomorrah. He saw smoke over His land rising like fumes from a furnace.
Genesis 19:28


I wonder how Sammy Sinful felt when he awoke in Sodom the day before it fell. Did he feel totally bad, did he know the end was coming? Did he think that he was the cause of it? Or did he feel a lot like I might feel this morning? Do you think that he woke up everyday thinking of ways to tick God off? Do you think that what he did that upset God was a goal of theirs?
I have heard three different interpretations of the Sodom and Gomorrah story: They were singled out by God for destruction because:
1) They had no regard for the poor.
2) They had a complete disregard for social justice.
3) They had a general immorality centered on self pleasure.
I find it to be quite possible that they didn’t wake up every day with evil in mind. I think that they woke up every day without God in mind and let those other things happen. What concerns me is that these are the same things that we face here in America today. Do we wake up and focus our day on other things: that are not on God or Christ centered things. Our measly two minutes of rote morning prayers might be negated by a life style and goals that are not consistent with those prayers.
The people in Sodom could have woken up every morning just like we do today. They lived their day to day existence filled with activities that were self-centered, me centered and me and my family centered activities. “Me” was the center of their lives. Isn’t it the same today? Do we sometimes spend five times as much on our annual vacations as we give to the poor? Are our political decisions based solely on how things affect “Me?” Not how they might affect the poor.
Can what happened to Sodom happen to us. I don’t know but personally I don’t want to take the chance. What I offer is the supposition that there is a crack in our covenant with God. I do not believe that we are at the point that the people of Sodom were when God dealt his destruction, but I have a feeling that we might be on our way.