Lot - a cowering drunkard who offered his daughters as a rape-ransom to a mob of perverts.
Not your typical harp-strumming, Air One-humming Christian. Definitely not baby-sitter material.
And yet
"and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard)"
He's called righteous, more times than even Noah in that same passage (2 Peter 2). And so the lesson, as a friend wiser than me put it, is that you don't have to be perfect to be righteous.
Inspires hope doesn't it?
P.S. One of the reasons for Lot's righteousness can probably be seen in those same verses. Another lesson to think on.
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