Lot’s wife…do you remember her from Genesis 19:26?
While reading this account today, I was reminded of my husband’s words when he has taught on this passage…Lot’s wife, commanded to not look back over her shoulder…yet, she can’t resist…and because of this looking back…to her past…she cannot grasp her future. She becomes a pillar of salt…forever frozen between what once was and the amazing life God was propelling her toward for her future.
Sounds like a lot of us…sounds like me some years back.
Looking back to our past, even if it has been painful…well…it sure can be comfortable. Much more comfortable sometimes than trusting Jesus that He knows what is best for our future. As my friend, Wendy Nolasco, likes to say… “At least we KNOW the street signs in hell (the “maybe” hell of our past…)”
Possibly our past tempts us to look back because it seemed so wonderful…you know… “The good ole days…” That was me. Afraid for the future, not being sure how to live in the present…my past was easy to look back to…I became frozen in time…just like Randy teaches. I was missing ALL of the crazy great miracles that the Lord wanted to do in my “today” and not fearlessly trusting that in Jesus...like when He kept the best wine for the end of the wedding…life in Him only gets more exciting, fulfilling, and rewarding (notice…I didn’t say easier!)
“But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God."
Luke 9:62
His words are enough for me…I’m not looking over my shoulder anymore…how about you?
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