When Abraham was interceding for Sodom he started at fifty righteous people asking God to spare the city if fifty righteous people could be found in the city. When the Lord agreed Abraham knew that there was not fifty righteous people. I have wondered why he immediately knew that there were not fifty righteous people in Sodom. He then asked if there was forty five, then forty, then thirty, then twenty and finally ten. Why did he stop at ten?
One explanation was that Lot's family consisted of ten people. Lot and his wife, two married daughters and their husbands, two sons and two single daughters. This sounds good but I don't believe that this was the reason. Back in verse 25 Abraham said that the judge of all the earth would do right. I think that Abraham finally came to accept that truth. He could trust the judge of the earth to do the right thing and therefore he could accept the outcome.
Too often we do not accept the fact that God will do the right thing so we continue to bargain with God. We act as if we know better than God.
Did Abraham stop praying for Lot and his family and for the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah? I don't think so. Neither should we stop praying for the people or situations but our focus should change. We are no longer bargaining with God but accepting the fact that the Judge of all the earth will do the right thing.
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