“Lot’s wife looked back behind him,
and she became a pillar of salt” (Gen 19:26)
All of us have a tendency to look back at what we have left behind when we move onward in our faith journey. It is because all is not rosy in the new life. There are temptations, hurdles, failures, sorrows and the like. We may even be tempted to think the old life was better.
Lot’s wife left a lot of attractive things behind — a home and all that she had collected over the past years. She had nothing to look forward to in the new life except the Lord — just mountains and plains and new people. Like any woman who feels sorry to lose her personal items, she looked back and became a pillar of useless salt.
The women in the wilderness had left a lot behind. The cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, garlic and the abundance of fish (Num 11:5). Imagine a kitchen without onions and garlic! But they forgot that they were given angel’s food and were on their way to a land of milk and honey.
Beware, manna, the heavenly food, God’s blessing should not become unsavoury to our eyes. Christian life is no doubt a life of carrying the cross. That should never tempt us to look back. In this wilderness journey there will be hardships but there will also be oases and manna. We must be praising God for the pillar of fire by night. With eyes of faith look at all the blessings you enjoy in your Christian life. Let the hope of eternal life be burning in your heart every day. It will prevent you from looking back.
If only Lot’s wife had looked forward and proceeded with trust in the Lord, Lot would have had a wife, and their daughters a mother, and so much calamity in the family would have been avoided.
Jesus said, “Remember Lot’s wife,” in the context of Second Coming (Lk 17:29-35). We who are looking forward to His Return, let us not worry about the “goods in the house” and “turn back” (v31). There are better things to worry about. “Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth” (Col 3:2).
“Two women will be grinding together: the one will be taken and the other left” (Lk 17:35).
Dr. Lilian Stanley
13 Church Colony
Vellore 632006, India
+91 9843511943
lilianstanley@gmail.com
Blessing Youth Mission
13 Church Colony
Vellore 632006, India
+91-416-2242943, +91-416-2248943
hq@bymonline.org
www.bymonline.org
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To buy books written by Dr. Lilian Stanley, kindly reach to us in the follwing address
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21/11 West Coovam River Road,
Chintadripet,
Chennai 600 002, India.
+91-44-28450411, 8806270699
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“Lot’s wife looked back behind him,
and she became a pillar of salt” (Gen 19:26)
All of us have a tendency to look back at what we have left behind when we move onward in our faith journey. It is because all is not rosy in the new life. There are temptations, hurdles, failures, sorrows and the like. We may even be tempted to think the old life was better.
Lot’s wife left a lot of attractive things behind — a home and all that she had collected over the past years. She had nothing to look forward to in the new life except the Lord — just mountains and plains and new people. Like any woman who feels sorry to lose her personal items, she looked back and became a pillar of useless salt.
The women in the wilderness had left a lot behind. The cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, garlic and the abundance of fish (Num 11:5). Imagine a kitchen without onions and garlic! But they forgot that they were given angel’s food and were on their way to a land of milk and honey.
Beware, manna, the heavenly food, God’s blessing should not become unsavoury to our eyes. Christian life is no doubt a life of carrying the cross. That should never tempt us to look back. In this wilderness journey there will be hardships but there will also be oases and manna. We must be praising God for the pillar of fire by night. With eyes of faith look at all the blessings you enjoy in your Christian life. Let the hope of eternal life be burning in your heart every day. It will prevent you from looking back.
If only Lot’s wife had looked forward and proceeded with trust in the Lord, Lot would have had a wife, and their daughters a mother, and so much calamity in the family would have been avoided.
Jesus said, “Remember Lot’s wife,” in the context of Second Coming (Lk 17:29-35). We who are looking forward to His Return, let us not worry about the “goods in the house” and “turn back” (v31). There are better things to worry about. “Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth” (Col 3:2).
“Two women will be grinding together: the one will be taken and the other left” (Lk 17:35).
Dr. Lilian Stanley
13 Church Colony
Vellore 632006, India
+91 9843511943
lilianstanley@gmail.com
Blessing Youth Mission
13 Church Colony
Vellore 632006, India
+91-416-2242943, +91-416-2248943
hq@bymonline.org
www.bymonline.org
Click here for more options
To buy books written by Dr. Lilian Stanley, kindly reach to us in the follwing address
Blessing Literature Centre
21/11 West Coovam River Road,
Chintadripet,
Chennai 600 002, India.
+91-44-28450411, Mob:8806270699
blc@bymonline.org
