“But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.”
Genesis 19:26
What or who is back there that you keep looking back to and stumbling on your way forward to Glory?!
Oh how we have a tendency to look back, to try to fix, mend, and redesign what the Lord in His infinite wisdom, broke to get us through and show Himself worthy of our praise.
Friend, The past is only as daunting as You allow the devil make it to be! But that devil is a liar in Jesus name!
See the beauty of a mercy and Love so in-explainable is that even if we don’t often understand it, God’s Love for His children, knows all that was done and will be done, and still chooses to forgive and bring us into the fulfillment of His divine plan. To God be the Glory!
When my now 3-year-old nephew first started walking two years ago, he would always walk as fast as his little legs would carry him. When he learned to run and discovered the liberation of running free, he would put as much energy into his body, running forward with a free spirit.
It was joyous to watch, but frightening at the same time!
See my little nephew ran forward with abandon but all the while he would be looking back at me! If it was not me holding his attention, he would be looking back at anything else to make sure something or someone was witnessing his ability to run!
He could have run into something or he could have stumbled and fallen violently at any given time but of course he had me running faster to keep up and make sure that I protected him against possible harm.
My little loved one did not know then that there was a great danger to looking back while running forward. FINISH READING HERE
