Daily Devotion For Wednesday Wisdom | February 18, 2026
It’s Wednesday, and time for your daily devotion. Sometimes individuals are in crisis mode, and instead of turning to God, they yield to their flesh. Without God’s direction, it’s difficult to navigate life on your own. In today’s daily devotion, know that worldly wisdom will fail you, but faith in God will sustain you.
Leaving Sodom
In Genesis 19, Lot lives in Sodom, which, along with Gomorrah, is a wicked city whose outcry against its inhabitants has increased before God. He sends two angels to destroy both cities and to protect Lot, Abraham’s nephew. After staying at Lot’s house and encountering the lewd men of Sodom, daybreak arises. The angels instruct Lot to leave Sodom because of its impending doom. Lot warns his future sons-in-law, but they think he’s joking.
The angels urge Lot to go, but he and his family delay. Then the angels grab them by their hands and bring them out of the city, warning them in verse 17: “Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.” But Lot begs to go to a city nearby called Zoar. In your daily devotion, resolve not to take advantage of God’s mercy by procrastinating and deciding on an alternate route.
Lot’s Wife
Lot and his family reach Zoar at sunrise, and they can hear the brimstone and fire falling from the sky as Sodom and Gomorrah are being destroyed. Then Lot’s wife, against the angels’ caution, looks back toward the city. She had become attached to it, and it pained her to leave. But the moment she turned, she became a pillar of salt. In this daily devotion, determine that you’ll obey God’s voice and not assert your own will.
Lot’s Daughters
Lot’s two daughters are in crisis, like their mother, who has become a fixture they had to leave behind. Their future husbands are no more, and their father has succumbed to fear. Lot had asked to go to Zoar, but now he’s afraid to dwell there. Instead, he finds a cave in the mountains. No longer surrounded by people, activity, and city lights, his two daughters begin to think of what they’re missing.
In verse 32, the oldest daughter devises a plan in the guise of family preservation: “Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.” They take turns for two nights, and get pregnant by their father. Their children will eventually become enemies of Israel: the Moabites and the Ammonites. In your daily devotion, know that when led by the flesh, immorality is normalized, which brings God’s judgment.
Lot’s Connection
As Abraham’s nephew, Lot was connected to the friend of God, the father of many nations, the one whose lineage would usher in Christ. When God told Abraham to leave his family and go to a place He would show him, Abraham took Lot with him. When God blessed Abraham, Lot was blessed as well. Genesis 13:5 says, “And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.” Verse 6 says they both had so much substance that they couldn’t dwell together. In this daily devotion, notice that when God’s people are blessed, there’s overflow.
Lessons from Lot
In Wednesday’s daily devotion, although spared by God’s mercy, Lot’s life is filled with bad choices and compromises with the world, which affects his family. In contrast, Abraham is obedient and faithful to God. In your daily devotion, learn to live in Christ’s righteousness in a world full of crises and unwise alternatives.
