As soon as the angels got them outside, one of them said, "Run for your lives! Don't look back and don't stop anywhere on the plain! Run to the mountains, or you will be swept away!" – Genesis 19:17
The story of Lot and his family is full of illustrations of spiritual failure and bad decisions.
It was a bad decision for Lot to live in Sodom and Gomorrah, and an even worse one to stay there. Lot's daughters made a couple of bad decisions in the mountains after they fled; decisions that led to the founding of two wicked nations (Moabites and Ammonites). But, perhaps, the worst decision of all was made by Lot's wife when she looked back. It seems that she had a problem leaving her life in Sodom behind and putting her trust in the God who gave her a chance at life and freedom. She, apparently, did not realize the inherent danger of looking back.
Every Christ-follower has been freed (by the blood of Jesus) from the past (no matter how bad), but each of Christ's followers is also responsible to keep their focus on the new life this freedom provides. Run for your life, don't look back, and live!
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. – Thomas Sowell
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