Lot's Wife

Why would you want to watch the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah?

Like Lot's wife, you'll die.

We can use it as an metaphor:

Don't turn back and look at your sins when God has provided forgiveness.  

Lot looked forward at God's mercy and grace; his wife looked back at sin and judgment.

Why did she look back?

Was it with longing for her home or simple reluctance to let go of the sin?

In the Apocrypha Book of Wisdom it states that it was her lack of faith.

Wisdom 10:7(Good News Translation)

"7 You can still see the evidence of their wickedness. The land there is barren and

smoking. The plants bear fruit that never ripens, and a pillar of salt stands as a

monument to one who did not believe."

The one who did not believe… that is why she looked back~ she did not believe the warning

of the angels; she did not believe in God's Mercy for herself and her family nor the

Judgment for sin.

"Remember what happened to Lot's wife! If you grasp and cling to life on your terms,

you'll lose it, but if you let that life go, you'll get life on God's terms." Luke 17:32-33

She could not let her life go.

Don't turn your back on the forgiveness God gives you through His Son, Jesus' death and

the new life in His resurrection!

How dare you not forgive yourself when Christ has paid for your sin with His precious

blood?

To turn back and look on your sin and dwell on its' wretchedness does have a parallel to

Lot's wife looking back to Sodom.

Refusing the forgiveness and grace offered though Christ Jesus is stating that His life

was not worth the cost of covering not only all of your sins but the entire world's

history of mankind.

Every single human being who ever lived since Adam and Eve till the Last Day~ Jesus, Son

of God and Son of Man, paid the price for all!

Let go of your life, your sin, your pain, your need to be in control. Let that life go,

cling to God and the forgiveness in Christ and you'll get life on God's terms.

John 14: 6 "Jesus answered him,

         I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one goes to the Father except by me.

19…because I live, you also will live."

Hebrews 10:39 Amplified Bible

"But our way is not that of those who draw back to eternal misery (perdition) and are

utterly destroyed, but we are of those who believe [who cleave to and trust in and rely

on God through Jesus Christ, the Messiah] and by faith preserve the soul."