And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
Observe God's renewed visit to Abram. How much better was the patriarch in a barren land, with God for his portion, than Lot in all the fruitfulness of Sodom, amidst the filthy conversation of the wicked.--Reader! pause to remark, how abundantly the presence and favour of Jesus, compensate the absence of earthly friends.