While God's justice was on display in his destruction of the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, so was his mercy. In fact, it is God's mercy to save from sin that is emphasized in his destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah because the focal point in the narrative is God remembering Abraham in God's treatment of Lot. The event and its subsequent place in the history of God's revelation to his people through the prophets and apostles highlights God's mercy as displayed in his patience with undeserving sinners and his wrath against unrepentant sinners. In these two emphases we see how we are to think of what it means that God was faithful to his covenant with Abraham, and thereby remembering him. It all serves to call us to entrust ourselves to the only merciful God, and to recognize that God's mercy forces us to have to deal with the eternal and infinite God, who alone saves from sin.

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