In my quite time with Christ I read Genesis 19:12-29.
The human race had become so corrupt with sin and desires of the flesh that God was going to once again (first with the earth being wiped away by the flood) wipe the area from the map.
If sin isn’t scary enough, God shows that our sin problem is not a joke.
Genesis 19:26
But Lot’s wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
An angel tells the family to gather themselves, flee, and not look back for the city would be destroyed.
So why does she look back?
Does she not believe the warning?
Is she testing her limits?
Is she scared that somehow they were not running fast enough?
Does she not believe the city would truly be destroyed?
These questions are where I stayed for the rest of my morning.
They all look a little familiar to me…like I have been there before….not running from a burning city but I have been told to leave sin, accept Christ and run after Him, and I have for sure looked back.
I looked back because I was worried and unsure of what would be ahead, I have looked back on the sin that felt like home, I have looked back or gone back in curiosity to the sin to see if it was really going to harm me.
To be saved from a life that was burning all around me and to be plucked out to only look back at it. How sorry I am for this.
When I look back to see where God has brought me from, I see His loving hand in all of it and when I look back to remember the pleasure of that sin I block Christ out.
Once I was blind but now I see, Amazing Grace
How sweet the sound.
