Lifted Up His Eyes - Genesis 13:8-13

Genesis 13:8-13 ESV 

Then Abram said to Lot, “Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, for we are kinsmen.

Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me. If you take the left hand, then I will go to the right, or if you take the right hand, then I will go to the left.”

And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

So Lot chose for himself all the Jordan Valley, and Lot journeyed east. Thus they separated from each other.

Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled among the cities of the valley and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

Now the men of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the Lord.

Abram and Lot part ways. Lot chooses the land pleasing to his eyes, just as the forbidden fruit was pleasing to the eyes of Eve in the garden. The separation of light and darkness continues as these kinsmen no longer sojourn together. Lot pitches his tent in the land of Sodom, a city of great wickedness. 

Lot lifted up his eyes, but his vision stopped short in being lifted to God. The glitter of the here and now obscured the light from the treasures of heaven.