The choice proved to be very unfortunate for Lot, though he had only himself to blame. It was a choice determined solely by material gain and worldly advantages, guided entirely by worldly wisdom, and devoid of all spiritual sensitivity. The dangers to his moral and spiritual welfare were completely overlooked in his inordinate desire for riches and fame. He purchased worldly prosperity at a fearful cost; for it nourished his selfishness and pride, exposed him to the contagion of evil associates, and deprived him of the benefits of religious ordinances.
Lot no doubt thought that he was doing a clever thing in apparently taking advantage of his uncle, but his fancied shrewdness resulted in his own undoing. Instead of overreaching Ab'ram, he overreached himself; in the lust for worldly gains he suffered immeasurable spiritual loss. No doubt his worldly goods were increased, but in the sight of God he became a spiritual pauper.
There was no altar to the true God in Sod'om, and Lot was too much embarrassed by the sinfulness of his surroundings to erect one. Though Lot may have been vexed in his better moments by the vileness of the people of Sod'om and Go-mor'rah, he failed to protest against the proud luxury and idleness which vaunted itself on every side. He appears to have avoided the grosser immoralities of Sod'om, but his wife and a number of his children became fatally entangled. Some of his daughters married men of Sod'om, and in their lack of faith declined to leave the city when its destruction was announced by the messengers of God. Lot's wife lost her life during the flight from the city because she paused to look back upon the worldliness to which her heart had become attached. Lot and his two daughters who escaped the destruction of Sod'om and Go-mor'rah were later guilty of shameful deeds which brought disgrace to his name and a curse upon his descendants.
