Abraham and Lot decided to part ways, with Lot to have choice of the direction he would go. A Sunday school teacher, reading this story from the Bible, came to the place where it says, "... and Lot lifted up his eyes ..." At this point, a small boy quickly interrupted: "He didn't lift them up high enough. Did he?"

The boy was right about that. Lot lifted up his eyes high enough to see the well-watered plain which promised easy living, but not high enough to see God's better way for his life. So, as it is written, "he pitched his tent toward Sodom." This decision was his undoing and his ruin: the Sodomites got to him.

You and I are called to lift up our eyes - also. And we should be sure that we lift them higher than some rich and fertile plain, that we lift them up all the way - all the way to God and to his better will for our lives. The Old Testament psalmist had the right idea when he wrote: "Unto thee do I lift up my eyes, O thou who dwells in the heavens."

If there is ever a time, among all times, when we should really lift up our eyes all the way, it is the time of Christian worship. To this time we now come. In faith and loving trust, let us lift up our eyes all the way to our Lord.