Two signs. One locked box. No letters inside.
That is the joke, and it is also the warning. Genesis 19 is not a travel brochure. It is a city that would not be corrected. The welcome sign treats darkness like a weekend. The suggestion box sits there for a better Sodom — empty, padlocked, unused.
Scripture does not wink at this chapter. Lot gets out. The cities do not. “What happens here stays here” is a slogan, not a covering. God sees it. God judges it. Mercy still makes a way out for those who will leave.
We still build boxes we never use. We still put a slogan on sin with a wink and hope it stays put. It doesn’t.
What “suggestion” would you have dropped in that box — for a city, or for your own heart? Tell us below.
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