三個天使身懷好壞兩種消息來到亞伯拉罕的家。好消息是：亞伯拉罕與撒拉長久以來的夢想就要實現了！他們馬上就要體會到為人父母的喜悅。壞消息是：所多瑪和蛾摩拉因他們的重罪，將遭到上帝充滿憤怒的審判。上帝垂聽亞伯拉罕的代禱，赦免羅得一家在所多瑪傾城的毀滅中倖免於難，雖然他們磨磨蹭蹭，捨不得離開，這也是他們不冷不熱的屬靈光景。

        一天，有一個名叫羅得的人坐在書桌前，拿出一張紙，在上面寫著：「我的生活目標」，然後，依照他生命的方向，列出目標如下：
        1.在我心中，要喪失一切道德的標準。
        2.在我家裡，要否定一切屬靈的權柄。
        3.在我的社區裡，要摒除所有好的影響。
        4.我要放棄一切對我重要、寶貴的人與事物。
        很荒謬，對不對？你會這麼想：羅得並沒列出這些目標，他只是做了這些事而已！這些沒有寫出來的目標，就變成他屬世選擇的自然結果。
        在羅得的生命中並沒有屬靈的目標，但你應該有！立定目標可以使你免於羅得的下場——毫無目標的閒盪人生。在二○○九年裡，在背經、查考聖經、研讀屬靈書籍和傳福音、作見證等方面，你有什麼特定的目標嗎？寫出來！放在常常可以看見的地方，為這些目標禱告，藉著上帝的幫助，就會實現、成功。

        今天他們在哪裡？
        羅得和兩個兒女亂倫所生後代（19：37—38），後來成了摩押和亞捫人的祖先。提起他們就必須說到他們是以色列人的世仇，由於他們嚴重的崇拜偶像，所以後來全部滅亡了。關於摩押，參閱阿摩司書2：1-3，亞捫參閱以西結書25：1-7。

很多人對自己的生命瞄準了很多正確的目標，只不過他們從未扣板機。

English

        Three heavenly messengers arrive with both good news and bad news for Abraham's family. The good news: Abraham and Sarah's long-awaited dream is about to come true! They will soon experience the joys of parenthood. The bad news: Sodom and Gomorrah will soon experience the full fury of God's judgment for their grievous sins. In response to Abraham's intercession, God spares Lot's family during Sodom's destruction, though their grudging departure reflects their lukewarm spiritual condition.

        It didn't happen this way, but it might as well have. One day a man named Lot sat down, at his desk, pulled out a sheet of paper, and wrote across the top: "Goals for My Life." Then he began to compile the goals that would shape the direction of his life:
        1. To lose all sense of moral values
        2. To forfeit all spiritual authority in my home
        3. To exert no influence for good in my community
        4. To lose everything and everyone dear to me.
        Ridiculous, you say? Then consider this: Lot made no such goals, yet he accomplished everything on that list! Those unwritten goals became the natural consequences of his worldly choices.
        Lot had no spiritual goals in his life, but you should. Written goals help prevent the kind of purposeless drift that set Lot up for disaster. What do you want to accomplish specifically in 1991 in the area of Scripture memorization .. . time in God's Word . . . reading good Christian books . . . sharing your faith? Write them down; hang them up; pray them through; and with God's help, watch them happen!

        Where Are They Today?
        From the offspring of Lot's incest with his daughters (19:37-38) came the forerunners of the Moabitesand Ammonites, who—though related to them—were the Israelite's constant enemies. For their gross idolatry, both Moab (Amos 2:1-3) and Ammon (Ezekiel 25:1-7) would later be destroyed.

Many people have the right aims in life; they just never get around to pulling the trigger.