Beginning of the End - Ellen G. White

When Lot entered Sodom he fully intended to keep himself free
from iniquity and command his household after him. But he failed.
The result is there for us to see.
Like Lot, many see their children ruined, and they barely save
their own souls. Their lifework is lost; their life is a sad failure. If
they had exercised true wisdom, their children might have had less
worldly prosperity, but they would have made sure of a claim to the
immortal inheritance.
The heritage that God has promised is not in this world.
Abraham "dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country,
dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the
same promise; for he waited for the city which has foundations,
whose builder and maker is God." We must live as pilgrims and
strangers here if we intend to gain "a better, that is, a heavenly
country" (Hebrews 11:9, 10, 16).
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