TEXT: GEN 19:12-17, 23-26.
The
determination to turn from the character that annoys God is a big sign of
spiritual growth. This means that you care about how God feels about you.
Obedience
is an important factor that should be taken serious when walking with God.
Partial obedience is as good as disobedience. (Deut 28:15 to the end). In the
text the angel of God told Lot to run quickly with his household out of Sodom
Was
the instruction obeyed fully? No. Lot 's wife
looked back for one reason or the other, and she became a pillar of salt.
Looking back caused her her future. The plan and purpose of God in her life
was destroyed because of her act of disobedience. Many have missed their
breakthrough because of their disobedience to God. They try to do things their
own way and not according to God's plan.
Many
Christian today started their Christian race well, but the distractions of this
world have caused them to look back, and this has caused them their eternal
glory in Christ. (1cor 9:24-25) “Do you not know that in a race all
runners run, but only one get the prize. everyone who competes in a game goes
into strict training, they do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do
it to get a crown that will last forever" God created us to
serve him, He wants us to have close fellowship with him. Walking with
God may be challenging, but there is gain in walking with God.
A
lot of Christian started in spirit but ended up in flesh. Though they may
still be active in their service in the church, but spiritually they have gone
back to perdition. What Lot's wife looked back to could be what she left
behind, and other things they are used to in Sodom
Once you have decided to follow
God; you are a new creation, you need to forget totally about your old ways,
and embrace your new life in Christ. Some people cannot persevere; they cannot
endure hardship that would lead them to eternal life. Instead they give up and
go back to their old self that will lead to eternal destruction.
(Isah 43:18-19) “Forget the former thing; do not dwell on the
past. See I am doing a new thing. Now it springs up do you not perceive
it?"
Many
believers today are struggling to concentrate fully on God. They are still
living in the past. (1Pet1:14) "As obedient
children do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance"
On the final note, God created us and He put our eyes in front, if He
think that there is something to look back to; may be He would have put another
eye at the back of our head, but because there is nothing to look back to
because He said we should forget the former thing, so He put our eyes in front,
so that we would be able to see all good things that lies ahead of us. The
importance of our heavenly race is to make heaven, to reign with Christ. People
that are living a life of sin will not reign with Him.
Don't
loose your focus; you know why you are running the race. Don't give up until
you achieve the purpose. I pray that at the end of our Christian race we will
not be disqualified in Jesus name Amen. Therefore since we are surrounded by
such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw of everything that hinders
and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race
marked out for us (Hebrew 12:1)
Whatever you are going through
today is not enough for you to turn your back against God; He is the only
lasting source of life that can satisfy the desires of your heart. Run your
Christian race to the end. DON'T LOOK BACK!
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