Dr. Mark Corts was pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for 39 years. As is the case with many pastors, every spring Dr. Corts would preach a baccalaureate sermon to his church’s graduating high school seniors. In 1975, the year I graduated, he spoke of the need for godly priorities. He challenged me and my fellow seniors to embrace four specific priorities in the coming months and years.
The first of one he named was that of choosing the unseen over the seen. In Genesis 13, when Lot chose to live in the well-watered plain of Jordan, he was taken in by what he saw but missed the importance of what he didn’t see—the moral depravity of nearby Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot and his family later paid a heavy price for Lot’s choice. Let’s always be mindful of unseen realities and let this awareness guide our decisions.
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