Do not look back!

”But Lot’s wife turned and gazed longingly on the city and turned into a pillar of salt.“
‭‭Genesis‬ ‭19‬:‭26‬ ‭TPT‬‬

I love you………We are continuing with the study on Lot and his family. Imagine being in danger and you’re given a chance of salvation but you choose to die instead. Foolishness right? That is Lot’s wife. That is the world today. Being given a chance to live again but we keep running back to the place of danger thinking that because grace abounds we will still make it to heaven. The foolish virgins thought they could borrow oil at the last minute. What they didn’t realise , like Lot’s wife is that disobedience to instructions has consequences. God is a loving Father but He is not our puppet. Do not by any chance think that God jokes with His word.

Lot’s wife packed her bags, said goodbye to her friends (if she had the time) , left the city physically but because the heart was still glued to the past, she couldn’t silence the noise of the inner man. Baptised only for lust to scream and say feed me. Physically going to church but the mind is stuck on the life of the world. Leaving a place physically is not as effective as detaching from it emotionally. Ever heard of the saying “You can take me out of the ghetto but you cannot take the ghetto out of me?” Did we just physically leave the old place? Have we detached from it?

The bible says she longed to see what was happening behind. That we can be so curious only to find out things that put us in harms way. If you’re a virgin , don’t be curious about sex. Keep yourself. If you’ve never drank alcohol, don’t be curious about the taste, I can tell you for free it’s a waste of money! Curious about how it feels to take drugs? All the things we are to know are in the Bible, curiosity if usually fed by demonic spirits that want to lock you up in a cycle.

This woman was told one thing: “Don’t look back,” and the one thing she was told not to do is the one thing she did. Furthermore, I found that understanding how she looked back quite possibly held a clue as to why she looked back: “But Lot’s wife, from behind him, [foolishly, longingly] looked [back toward Sodom in an act of disobedience], and she became a pillar of salt. What is it about the past that has kept you lingering in that place? Is it a relationship? A job? Money that you lost? We may not have turned to a pillar of salt but we could be stuck on

Our emotions, 
our thoughts, 
our attitudes, 
our opinions, 
our possessions, 
our plans, 
our desires, 
our habits, 
our comfort, 
our pain, 
our wounds, 
our relationships, 
our past, 
our present, 
or even our future hopes.

Equally, it is often difficult to move on when we have experienced deep trauma, pain, or suffering, and feel utterly hopeless and helpless. Moving on is something we know we should do, what we often want to do, and at times what we actually refuse to do, but it remains something God eagerly wants for us. I pray that you identify places that have kept you stuck and make every effort to move on. Don’t look back! Don’t entertain the questions that dig up the scar! Allow yourself to detach. You don’t need to hold onto what was. My pastor, Ps KG taught me this , “Another way of deliverance is simply walking out of the trauma!” Darling get your bags and get out! Pace up and go! You have a family that needs you! You have a promise from God! You have angels around you, LEAVE THE CITY QUICKLY AND DO NOT LOOK BACK ! Why? Because the Lord has destroyed it for a reason! It is no more! The glories are gone! The future awaits you!

”Don’t always be asking, “Where are the good old days?” Wise folks don’t ask questions like that.“
‭‭Ecclesiastes‬ ‭7‬:‭10‬ ‭MSG‬‬