Every morning when I wake up; I marvel that G-d Almighty has not wiped this nation from the face of the earth...Lot must still be here...somewhere. :-)
Indeed, and the fact that we have another day to serve the Lord, which something believers in Christ will get to do forever, (Rv. 22:3) should gladden our hearts.
But i would not be unduly hard on Lot, but consider him in context and compare him with what you see today.
Yes, he comes across as a weak believer with little authority, and choosing to stay in Sodom weighs against him, and offering his two daughters to the lustful Sodomites out of love for the brethren is certainly troublesome, and getting drunk, even after losing everything he had, is still inexcusable,
Yet the man was grieved by the iniquity of Sodom, and refused to let the brethren abide in street, but constrained them to accept his hospitality, and risked his own life in their defense, and had two virgin daughters and the rest were married in the midst of a city given to fornication. And he did pray and ask God for permission.
Compare that with today, in which most “Christians” would not offer or even want another believer to stay with them for one night, let alone risk their life for them, and i think few have virgin daughters of marriageable age, at least in major cities, and some daughters are living in sin rather than marry.
Again, while his sins cannot be excused, love does cover a multitude of sins, and if i was a poor Christian stranger stranger in a strange hostile city i would rather meet a Lot then the typical Christian whose charity is largely superficial, not sacrificial.