Good Places To Be From

"But Lot's wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt"
Genesis 19:26

Lot and his wife and family, hastily grabbed what they could, and got out of Sodom, and as they fled they saw the changes in the atmosphere, and then they heard the clamor of destruction raining down on that place. Even though they wanted to turn around and look back, Lot shouted the instructions of the angels: " NO MATTER WHAT YOU HEAR DON'T LOOK BACK!" Lot's wife, not able to keep her thoughts and actions captive any longer, succumbed, and looking back, was turned into a pillar of salt. A monument to disobedience.
I just read another blog, Worthy Brief, that highlighted an amazing point. The shoresh or root word for repentance is shuv, spelled in Hebrew שב sheen vet (Bet in its primary form) . The sheen is represented as teeth, ( destroy) vet or bet represents a house- literal meaning- to destroy the house. In ancient cultures when a country was conquered and people taken captive , their houses were destroyed, so that the captives would be discouraged from thinking of returning! There was no going back.
When Jesus captivates us, our hearts, minds and souls become His, we leave the dark spiritual places we came from, we are to focus on Jesus, we are not to look back.
There can be no flitting back and forth.
When the going gets tough, when we are in a pruning season, keep pushing forward beloved.
Remember Lot's wife!
(Luke 17:32)

"The Lord had said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you.
So Abram left, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Haran." (Genesis 12:1, 4)

The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had come out of Egypt. In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord's hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.” (Exodus 16:1-3)