THE WIFE OF A SERVANT OF GOD

By Odon Bulamba

Luke 17:28-30; Genesis 18 & 19

God’s word says that men will not live by bread alone but he will by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. Most parents are worried about what their children eat and spend all their time going to work so that their children can have some bread because they want to be responsible for their children’s lives. God also, is responsible of the lives of His children (us). He also does everything He can so that we can eat bread, He works hard so that we won’t lose weight by being hungry, He works hard so that we will not be malnourished. God gives us food with protein and vitamins so that we will have perfect health in Christ. However, the one who doesn’t have this perfect health; it is now the time to go to a specialist so that he can tell you what kind of food to eat so that you can be spiritually healthy.

Luke 17:28-30, before Lot went to Sodom and Gomorrah he was somewhere else with his wife and Abraham. There was a problem that came up and instead of sorting this problem out with Abraham, he decided to do something which might have been against Abraham’s will and against the will of God. The problem that was there was not Abraham or Lot’s problem; it was a problem between Abraham and Lot’s servants.

Lot had his shepherds likewise with Abraham. Instead of Lot sorting the problem out with his servants, he went to see his wife for advice and she said something like, “I can see that something is wrong with Abraham because we depend on him and he always puts us down, I think that now it is the time to leave Abraham and let him go to the right”(this is what the theologians say happened). From there Lot was influenced and decided to leave Abraham. We can see how much Lot’s wife has played a bad role in Lot’s life. Lot forgot all what Abraham had done for them and was now saying that they wanted to get rid of him. Maybe we could understand better if Abraham had beaten up one of Lot’s children, but because of animals men want to leave each other. What kind of men are servants of God? If the theologians are right and this story is true then Lot’s wife advised Lot badly.


As for you, if you are the wife of a servant of God or you will be the wife of a servant of God tomorrow, then think about it and know what is going to happen, you must know exactly what to tell your husband. Think about where you are and think also about the will of God, think, if I advise this to my husband will it please God or not and if not then just leave it.

So Lot left Abraham and went, we all know the story, Lot went and settled in Sodom which was just beside Gomorrah, it was a cursed city, a city that God didn’t like, a city that was dishonourable before God and God never liked this city. Ezek 16:48-50, we can see clearly that God didn’t like this city, pride was there.

We can see that this city reflects many women today who are the wife of a servant of God. For example, a wife of an evangelist or the wife of a pastor is proud. They don’t think of the poor and needy, they are selfish in everything and sometimes think of themselves as higher than others. In this case, God will not be with this wife. It is the same as Sodom, the Bible says that Sodom had beautiful grass, it attracted Lot to go there but in this city there was something that God didn’t like at all. A pastor can be there, an evangelist can be there and everybody will see that everything is beautiful, there are nice flowers etc, but in his own house there are serious problems that God hates.

God said, “Now I will go and touch this city”, and before going there he went through Abraham and among the three angels that came to Abraham God was there among them also, so Abraham talked with God. When two of those angels went to Sodom (one of them didn’t go) God’s servant Lot knew that they were very important for him and he ran to them. The Bible says that he bowed down and other versions say that he worshipped. Lot insisted that they must stay at his place until the morning and wash their feet.

Lot’s wife didn’t say anything, although Lot had great joy to receive those guests his wife did not, she didn’t say anything. It was to the extent that Lot said, “I am going to make you something to eat” (Gen 19). So Lot said, “I’m going to fix up something for you and you will spend the night here and in the morning you can carry on your way”, so those angels said, “yes we will stay for the night”. Because Lot insisted a lot, they stayed.

So what happened after that, the Bible tells us that something came that night, a group of young and old people went to Lot’s place, they knocked at the door and asked Lot, “where are the people who came here to be with you, we want to know them”. This was something very bad. Lot knew where he was living, he knew that this city was in disorder but he didn’t show the people in this city who is the true God, he didn’t witness and bring life to people around him.

The Bible says that Lot left the house and opened the door and he said to those people, “please be quiet because I am going to explain something to you, instead of giving you those two men I am going to give you my two daughters who are still virgins, you can play with them”. Lot had shut the door behind so that the angels couldn’t hear him talking to the people. Most Christians today do things that are Christian when they are in the assembly of God but when they are away from other Christians or the church, they just close the door behind them and do what the world does. They make as if they are not Christian and start talking like worldly people, they sacrifice the lives of those who are like virgins for Christ and when they do that they hide. But nobody can hide from God so the angel opened the door, he didn’t say anything he just pulled Lot with his hand. It means that nothing on this earth can be hidden, whether you do it during the night or during the day, whether you are in the air or inside the earth, God is always there and His eye will see you.

What happened to all those people in Sodom? Jude v7, Romans 1:26,27, this is something really disgusting, because we can see that what happened in the time of Sodom is what is happening right now. This is just a prophecy that is being fulfilled because Jesus said that what happened in the time of Sodom, you will see it happen again when the Son of man will be here. Today we can see that in every country those things are happening, homosexuality is high, men and women know each other and even in this country where we live, the law protects this practice. If you want to do anything about this, the law will be against you. As a church it is time to open our eyes and see where we are going, we can criticise and say that Sodom was really bad, but where are we? We can also say that Lot was bad by shutting his door and arranging things but where are we? Actually here in NZ there are pastors who are homosexual, in the States servants of God’s wives are lesbians also in Africa, everywhere this exists. They are with us in Church and they preach but when they are outside the church that is the way that they are. When they go and meet with people in the world they speak calmly and they say let’s do something and let’s do that. We can see that the church encourages those things, as Lot encouraged the people that were there and he said in exchange I will give you my two daughters. Today God’s servants do the same thing, they gather men and women and do things like in the world.

SUMMARY

- As a wife of a servant of God we must be humble
- As a wife of a servant of God we must advise the husband wisely
- We must obey the Word of God wherever we are
- We have to remember nothing is hidden from God

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