Starting in Genesis 13:8-11 look at the direction that Lot takes. Notice in verse 12 his tent is pitched toward sodom and in Gen. 14:12 just one chapter later he "dwelt" in sodom. Then he goes down a road in which his family is removed from sodom, but there are major residual effects on his posterity. Lot might have been o.k. and delivered, but he lost his wife and his two daughters carried with them some pretty crazy sexual ideas that they picked up in sodom.
Now by contrast look at Abrahams journey in the "wilderness". Making and keeping covenants all along. In the end his posterity love their covenants...including Ishmael. Ishmael was kicked out of Abraham's camp with his mother Haggar, but he and his posterity become a great people of the Lord and desire down to this day the covenants of their fathers.
Bottomeline...our choices will have a major residual effect on our children. If we keep our tents facing the temple/mountain while we seem to be surrounded with worldliness and sin our families will be preserved and blessed.
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