DON'T LOOK BACK!

Why do we stop to look at the car pulled over on the side of
the road? Why do we ‘creep’ someone on facebook we barely know? Why are reality shows
always blaring on TV? I don’t know the answer, curiosity, fear, what ifs. What
ever that driving force is, it may be how Lot’s wife felt when she fled Sodom under Heavenly
protection.

How would you feel in Genesis 19? Imagine. Smoke invading
your lungs. Your heart is pounding with fear. Your eyes are stinging with ash. Your
ears filled with screams of anguish. Your skin feeling like it might be on fire
itself. All of this is happening around you. We think of Lot’s
wife, who would want to look back? Who would want to see destruction and
devastation? Angels of the LORD were leading her out of the city! The world was
falling down all around, her instruction was don’t look back! Yet, she did. One
glance and she was a statue of salt.

The enemy uses a ploy with us today. God delivers us from
something or a situation. As He is in front of us coaxing us out of the fire,
rubble, smoke, and ash of poor decision-making or consequence, rather than
moving on, we may be tempted to look back.

We should look forward to the promises of our great healer
and savior, yet there is comfort in the old ways of a dirty city, it is not
hard to shine among the filth. However, to be a washed, clean sparkling jewel
in the crown of the almighty, nestled in to a secure setting among our fellow
treasures, well we might think we do not deserve such a place because of our
past.

If you have been through a small trial or if God has
delivered you out of a big ole’ mess, don’t look back. Our feelings bruised to
remind us not to return, but our hearts can be full of good. Use the word to
light our path as we move forward.

Unfortunately, our fallen world has a way of bringing up the
bad, reminding us of what we have done or where we have been, but we do not
have to look back. Looking back may freeze our progress to be closer to God in
an immortal pillar of salt to erode by the sands of time if we do not get a
move on!

Our Sunday school class has been going through the book of Genesis;
the lessons are rich and applicable to our lives in the now. It is a great time
to plug in and move forward!

P.S. My proofreader/my beloved just learned what it means to 'creep' on fb!