“But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.”
Genesis 19:26
I remember I would run after him frantically trying to protect him.
How ironic is it that even as young adults until old age and even death, we too have a heavenly Guide running behind, beside, and in front of us, as a shield, in the aim of protecting is from harm as we run recklessly forward but refusing to keep our eyes forward!
The story of Lot’s wife in the scriptures is evident of how sudden the terror of looking back can be. As everyone ran forward to safety and away from the destructing that was their past, she dared to look back while running forward!
And she instantly became a pillar of salt!
I recently heard a word about how rarely we note that pillar of salt or not, Lot’s wife was made a pillar nonetheless.
She was a pillar. She was solid, strong, un-moving, impenetrable. She was a pillar.
This was God’s Hand. This was God’s Word.
Friend, did you know that you are a pillar? Are you aware that the power of God in you proclaims that you have the genes of a Mighty God coursing through you? Making you unshakeable by evil? Making you stand strong and undefeated in the name of Jesus?
But what good is a pillar that cannot move through the world and show the magnificence of a Wonderful God?!
I am here to tell you, to remind you, that you too, cannot look back!
Your heart may be racing as mighty walls of man’s hands are coming down in destruction behind you. Your mind might be reeling from the trauma of watching great works of man falling to pieces and causing chaos all around you, but you still cannot look back!
Keep looking forward. Keep moving forward. Keep praying forward. Keep ‘faithing it’ forward. Keep growing forward in purpose and in God’s truth.
The enemy knows that as long as you are able to keep one foot in front of another, with your eyes looking to the Hills of the Lord where your help comes from, you are winning.
Take a moment to imagine the danger of looking back to what was and missing the path, the victory, the amazement on the way to what is to be.
I’m afraid you can no longer look back to that place you used to be, the you that used to be. You can no longer look back to stretch a hand to that ‘friend’ that keeps making you backslide on your walk with God. You can no longer look back to the evils of your childhood or youths. You can no longer look back to the ruins that was necessary to become an amazing beauty in the eyes of your Father in heaven!
Overflow is in front of you. An immeasurable anointing and favor of God is ahead of you. A glory that has not been seen nor heard before is in front of you!
“Don’t look back!”
Friend, let your past go! Let your sorrows of yesterday go! Let your disappointments of before go! Let what is behind you, remain behind you!
I urge you to get out of your own way and watch God work!
Let God move you as a pillar from glory to glory. Refuse to be the pillar that is unable to move because you keep looking back!
I pray today that your past no longer claim residence in your present. May the Lord shift your spirit today to bring your eyes to Him who alone knows your tomorrow in Jesus name. Amen!
