DON'T LOOK BACK

*DONT LOOK BACK*

 *TEXT: GEN19*

Yielding to instructions is indispensable. Instructions can Make or Mar us depending on the personality of the instructor.

In the book of Gen13:13, we were made to realise that the men of sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the Lord. Infact the atrocities they committed was more than that which was committed in the days of Noah. And God was ready to destroy them.

 *Don't look back* is a command that needs to be obeyed.

In the case of lot and his family,they were actually in an unpleasant situation that required them to vacate the land of sodom immediately ,which they never planned for. They could not gather their properties. Even when they were told to leave the land of sodom,they lingered, they were relunctant .But the angel held their hands and led lot ,his wife and his two daughters out of the city of sodom and ordered them not to look back.

In GEN19:24-26, we were made to understand that the Lord rained down burning sulphur on the land of sodom and everything in the burnt to ashes.

The wife of lot,thou righteous remembered the super-abundant life they were living. She remembered all they had. She remembered her Dresses,golds etc. She thought of how they were going to survive . She wished she could go back to get them all. She still longed for that sinful place sodom. Her mind was not totally made up.
And then she looked back,and she became a pillar of salt.

For lot and his family,they fled from the sinful land of sodom, We are also expected to flee from the World.

Having fled from the world ,we shouldn't look back,we shouldn't find pleasure in those things we've left behind but be focused on God.

 *Luke 9:62 says"No one puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.*

*The World has nothing to offer but destruction. Be focused,Don't look back.*


Your Friend,
✍🏼 Olayinka Beatrice Akinfolase.

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