DON’T MOURN THE PAST

SUNDAY JANUARY 26, 2025

Interesting concept about the “Pillar of Salt”. The Bible says it is what happened to Lot’s wife as their family fled the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Gen. 19:26 – “But his wife, from behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.”

I think it has been often misinterpreted as to what that exactly means.

First of all, there is no mention that Lot’s wife was the victim of some sort of personal judgment by God just because she turned around to catch a glimpse of the destruction. I mean it wasn’t like “Zap! You are now a pillar of salt”.

However, it does appear that she most definitely suffered her fate because she disobeyed the instructions of the Angel, and paused and looked back. It does say she “became”, or, was “turned into” a pillar of salt. Whether God zapped her or she stood too long in one spot instead of keeping moving like she was told, she suffered the effects of not listening to God.

She paused and looked back. Most probably long enough for the fire and brimstone that were raining down upon the land from Heaven, and blowing up the large salt quarries that were in the area into the atmosphere, and then falling back down upon those who didn’t keep running. Namely…Lot’s wife.

From then on she has been known as Lot’s Wife: The woman who stopped to look back.

When we head out from the past destruction of our previous lives before knowing Christ we are to keep going in that direction.

We are never to look back in wonderment of whether we made the right choice. We are never to mourn the “old life”.

When or if we do, there is a good chance that it will “catch up to us” and bury us in our past.

There may be no coming back out again. It would be is as if we have been turned into a stone monument of our sins.

What does Jesus say?

He says in Luke 17:32 – “Remember Lot’s wife!”

Not as as a question, but as an emphatic exclamation!

“Remember what happened to Lot’s Wife!”

Don’t go there! Stay the course!

Be a Pillar of Strength, not a Pillar of Salt!

When does Jesus bring up the remembrance of Lot’s wife? During his message on the day He will appear to us again.

He says in the previous verse 31: “On that day let him who is on the housetop, with his belongings in the house, not come down [and go inside] to carry them away; and likewise let him who is in the field not turn back.”

Be alert. His return is imminent. There will be no time to gather up your stuff or to make up your mind. Once you are on the road with Him there is no room for looking back.

There never has been. There never will be.

We are either all in, or we are all out. We cannot straddle the fence. There is no gray area. No DMZ.

Matthew 12:30 – “He who is not with Me [definitely on My side] is against Me.”

Lot’s wife wasn’t sure. She paid for it.

You need to be sure.

Today and every day.

Be assured that you are in my prayers today.

Keepin’ it REVIVED,

Pastor Doc Lynch

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