Lot's Loss

"Remember Lot's wife. Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it" (Luke 17:32,33).

Remember Lot and what he lost,
Though God had spared his life.
Remember what his choices cost;
Do not forget his wife.

We do not even know her name,
Yet surely we recall
Her backward glance which then became
A warning to us all.

Whatever Lot perceived was gain
In Sodom's wicked place,
Was soon reduced to great disdain
And horrible disgrace.

Though Sodom and Gomorrah's waters
Had made its landscape green,
Its wickedness exposed his daughters
To life that was obscene.

O Lord, when Lot is called to mind
With Sodom's infamy,
We think of things he left behind
And of his family.

O cleanse us, Lord, from life so wrong
That we would seek to win
A life for which we shouldn't long
That loses life to sin.