17And it came to pass, when they had brought forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain: escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
18And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so my Lord:
19Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:
20Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
21And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.
22Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
23The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered unto Zoar.
24Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;
25And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
26But his wife looked back and she became a pillar of salt.
Have you ever to stopped to think what would've happened if Lot would have just obeyed what the Lord said from the beginning, 100%? I wonder what Lot's life would've ended up like it did if he would've just fled to the mountains like he was told. I wonder if his wife would've still looked back and became a pillar of salt. I wonder if his daughters still would've committed the same sin we read about later on in the chapter.
I wonder if God would've used him in a mightier way?
Ya know, a lot of us (myself included) have the tendency to do as Lot did. When the Lord tells us to go here or go there we say "But Lord, this place is closer, this place seems safer to me.." We always have our plan that we want the Lord to use. But what we don't realize is that God has His own PERFECT plan for each of us. No matter what we face and no matter what we go through, as long as we keep our eyes fixed on Jesus and obey Him, EVERYTHING IS GONNA BE JUST FINE!
Romans 8:28 says "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."
Matthew 6:25-26 says "Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more that meat, and the body more than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?"
Those two verses are two of my favorites. God cares for us! Each and every one of us! He knows how many hairs are on our head each day!
He has a plan and a purpose for each one of His children. And, trust me, He knows far better than we could ever hope to know. All that is required of us is a little bit of trust and a lot of obedience.
This life is not an easy life. It takes prayer and fasting and dedication and time reading His precious Word.
Luke 17:32 says "Remember Lot's wife."
We must never look back to what we've left behind us. We must keep moving forward in Christ and continually grow in Him. We just have to let Him burn out everything we back behind. Don't look back. And surely don't GO back! Christ paid too high a price. And not only that, but it's far too late in this game to be playing around with sin. Jesus is coming soon!!!
