We tend to view Lot in a poor light. We look at him kind of sideways, with (at least) a little contempt, perhaps, and a little suspiciousness.

“You know Lot. He’s the guy that didn’t have the decency to leave the best land to his uncle Abraham (to whom it belonged in the first place).”

“Oh yeah, him! And he’s the guy that had materialism oozing out his pores, so much so that he chose to live in a city reknown to this day for its extreme wickedness.”

“Hey! And didn’t he offer his two of his daughters to a bunch of crazies?”

Oh yes indeed. We know Lot.

Do you know what the Bible calls him?

“And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked” (2 Peter 2:7).

Oh.

I wonder how many other people — people around me — I have misjudged.

Furthermore, would God give a similar testimony of me?

Just how just am I, and vexed (worn down, troubled, distressed) by the ungodliness and immorality around me?

Not to the same degree as “that Lot”!

God’s power, being divine, is without limit. Awesome!

He chooses to use that power to benefit me, helping me live in godliness:

“According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue” (2 Peter 1:3).

If it has to do with real life and with being godly, He has given it to me!

I get this by knowing Jesus.

I want to know Him. Better.

Now notice this from my Spanish Bible:

“As all things…have been given to us…ye also, putting forth all diligence…add…” (verses 3 and 5).

More clearly than the King James Version, this connects what He has done with what I ought to do.