Looking Back
By Alan Breitenstein
July 7, 2019
Scripture Reading: Joshua 24:15
Christ said he who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is not fit for the Kingdom of Heaven, and he who loves father, mother, daughter, son more than me cannot be My disciple, is not worthy of Me.
Don’t look back. It was a command. It was issued by a supernatural being.
Lot and his wife had 4 daughters; 2 married... and the sons-in-law mocked him. Lot would not have been able to take his daughters from them if they were already married. Had they had Lot’s grandchildren, I, being a grandfather, would have had those servants of God put their hands on them and remove them from the city also. Lot’s wife quite likely looked back longing for the other daughters, and she could have been longing for her home life. Ever try moving someone out of a place that they have been in for a while? It is not easy. Now Lot’s wife, because she looked back, was turned into a pillar of salt.
In Lot's wife's situation, looking back was irrational, it was also rebellion. Maybe it was not for her daughters (or merely for her daughters), but the life of Sodom, other friends, etc. It is hard to lose family, but when the choice is “life” or “death” and your death will accomplish nothing for the others, only a fool thinks death is something to be sniveled at or ignored. What if the others followed...? Her looking back was death and so she would have died, and the others would have had to leave her corpse behind.



