Don't look back

This morning I read the story of the destruction of Sodom and Gommorah. What stuck with me really was how Lot's wife fatally looking back takes up one sentence.

"But Lot's wife looked back, and became a pillar of salt."

My first thought is poor Lot! He lost his wife. My second thought is always 'would I have looked back?'

I'm a curious person and humans seem to have this morbid need to watch train wrecks, slow down at accidents and watch intense action and horror films (I can honestly say that I do not enjoy watching horror). Why did Lot's wife look back? I don't know. I Googled. Someone suggested that she had become consumed by the fine things that being near the city provided her and that although she knew she should go it was hard for her to leave her belongings. So she looked back.

As readers and students we are left to fill in the blanks. Maybe we don't need to 'fill in the blanks'. We don't need to justify her looking back or to understand why. The only point is that she did when she was clearly told not to and she suffered fatal consequences for her disobedience. Thank you God for Jesus!!! I may be a pillar of salt a thousand times over for my sins without Him.

Although we are now saved, I believe there is still a lesson to be learned here. When it's time to move on, don't hesitate. When God makes you a way out of a sinful situation, go. If he doesn't make a way, find a way. Be moved - change your situation or change your location. Move. Don't look back. Don't go back. Don't even visit in your mind. Longing for the past is not productive. The only way is forward. The way is through Jesus.