Tormented

Yesterday morning I was reading through 2 Peter 2 and I came across this:
"If he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly, and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men (for that righteous man, living among them day after day was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)..."

Lot lived in these cities of Sodom and Gomorrah (probably not an intelligent move in the first place), and they were cities that were full of all kinds of sexual immorality and perversion (good thing we don't have any cities like that, eh?). Peter says here that Lot was distressed and tormented in his righteous soul just because he saw the sin taking place around him and knew what an offense it was to God. I had to ask myself, how tormented is my soul by the lawless deeds I see and hear every day in this culture? I fear that we as Christians have become very desensitized to sin just because we are around it so much, but I would encourage you (and myself) to always remember what an offense to the character of God OUR sins and the sins of other are, and may we never be okay with sin.