Looking Back

Scripture:

Genesis 19:26 "But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt".

Observation:

When God was going to send judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah, He told Lot's family to get out of there and not look back. Lot's wife did good in that she was fleeing the city, but on her way out, she turned and looked back. She disobeyed what she was told by the angels and was turned into a pillar of salt. There is nothing in our old lives worth looking back at.

Application:

It is not easy to leave Egypt or Sodom or our old life and not look back periodically. Jesus told us that no one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is worthy of the kingdom of God. We must never look back at our "Before Christ" lives and long for them. There was nothing there worth looking back at! We must look forward to what God has for us in the future. He has prepared a place for us in His kingdom that is amazing and something we have to look forward to. You can't look backward and forward at the same time. Let's look forward to what God has for us and leave the past in the past.

Prayer:

Lord, help me look to the future and have a future orientation. You have prepared so much for us in the present and in the future that I don't want to look back. Help me to forget those things which are behind and reach forward to what is ahead as Paul told us to do.

Your Son,

Jeff