A Longing Last Look

Remember Lot's wife.

Remember...Jesus was talking to disciples. He was reminding them to remember the story. The story in the Hebrew scriptures about Lot (the nephew of Abraham), and his wife is found in Genesis 19. Jesus wanted His disciples to recall this woman's response to a warning about the impending judgment of God. The city of Sodom was on a fast track leading to destruction and God's angels had warned Lot and his wife and daughters that it was coming. It was perilous times for them. God was going to destroy the city of Sodom for its wickedness and rebellion. This family was miraculously delivered from the danger zone with a warning to flee for their very lives and not look back upon the place from where they had been rescued. What was the response of Lot's wife? She had to take one last look. It was a longing last look for the life she was being led away from. And it cost her dearly. A desire for the life she was leaving behind was her fatal attraction. Sin's power is only broken by the power of God to save. And some disciples look backward more than they look forward. Coming out of Sodom, coming out of sin, was a one way journey. The way out was life. Judgment was coming. Death was near. It's a lesson for the modern day disciple. One look back to where we are being delivered from and we are tempted to go back. If we look backward to what God has deemed worthy of destruction, we will be destroyed as well. We will not live. Lot's wife looked back to the place where she had left her heart...in Sodom. It was her last look alive. How many of us take too many longing looks backward...never moving forward into where God is leading? One look back is one look too many. One longing look can be our very last look. Looking backward towards sin's domain will render us useless for the journey of salvation. God is leading us somewhere. Don't leave anything worth dying for behind in Sodom. Leave with your life and live!