Lot’s wife

”Don’t forget the example of Lot’s wife and what happened to her when she turned back.“
‭‭Luke‬ ‭17‬:‭32‬ ‭TPT‬

The Holy Bible

Greetings my Yielded people, I missed you . I really did. I hope you are well. You’re still very special to me. My week off was really a time of revival for me. I had a buffet of the Bread of Life. Our God is truly good. This week I want us to look at Lot’s wife. I believe this is a very sensitive time in the spiritual realm and many are becoming or have become Lot’s wife. It is a fearful thing for one to die quietly in his bed, get into an accident or get shot, but to die suddenly in a moment, in the very act of a sin, by God’s direct imposition is dreadful indeed. There’s something different about her death.

So this woman is a wife and assumingly a mother of two based on Lot’s words to the men who wanted to sleep with the angels and the two sons in law pledged to marry his daughters. They were city people. Wealthy. This means that they had a lot to leave behind. It reminds me of the rich young ruler. So much material things to leave behind and of Abraham, a family to leave behind . The bible has many examples of people who had to leave something behind to pursue the new thing or instructions that God has given them. As a matter of fact, believers are to leave their old life behind to embrace the new life in Christ. Remember Lot’s wife.

”Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!“
‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭5‬:‭17‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Lot’s wife’s name has not been recorded in the bible but her story is one of the strangest stories in the bible. By strange I mean, it happened to her only, what a consequence of disobedience. No one shot her. She didn’t commit suicide. Her husband did not beat her to death . She did not fall sick . She died because she turned back to look at the burning cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. She didn’t run back physically but her eyes and mind were still locked onto the past, she turned to look. As she was running with her family, her mind was creating the urge to turn back. Just like your mind can sometimes create the urge to go back to sin. Many people lose the battle of the mind like Lot’s wife and they find themselves stagnated . There’s no way Lot and his daughters could carry the pillar of salt. She was left there, stagnated because of a decision to look back.

I can imagine her, debating within herself, “Should l, should l not? Should l just be strong and follow my husband? What will happen if I turn? I won’t die, certainly not! God would not save us to kill us. Maybe my husband will also turn. It’s in the nature of all of us to turn, I’m not alone. Someone feels the same way, someone somewhere is turning back as well. I will surely have another chance . God is merciful. I will repent after this,” Doesn’t this sound like us? Debating disobedience and scheduling repentance. Lot’s wife may have thought like you. Little did she know, there was a consequence to that act of disobedience that would leave her husband a widower and her children motherless.

Remember Lot’s wife. Don’t easily forget her memory. Don’t be so quick to think it was a meaningless death. Many people died in the bible but we are not warned to remember them. What is it about this woman that Jesus says remember? A woman whose name we don’t know? This is a warning!! Remember to get rid of the old, the past, what’s behind, yesterday and its glory , you cannot carry Sodom and Gomorrah in you or with you, leave it behind. What this means is, the future needs new tools, a new mind, an obedience to the new. If all you’re thinking about is the old, you’re not ready to walk with God. Think about Lot’s wife and what happened to her when she looked back.

See you tomorrow! I love you. God loves you!