Remember Lot’s wife – Luke 17:32. 

What is your understanding of this Scripture?

In Genesis 19 the Scriptures record that Lot lingered in Sodom even though the angels told him that the Lord was going to destroy the city. The angels had to take hold of Lot’s hands, his wife’s and his daughters’s hands to get them out of Sodom. What did they sow in the land of Sodom that caused them to linger is a question that you should ask yourself? 

What was going on in Lot’s wife’s heart as she left Sodom? What made her look back? She kept looking back even though the word of God had said, Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.”

Let’s transfer this to our time because something is happening to the whole world and we don’t seem to understand that God is calling us away from the things that look so innocuous, and yet we continue to struggle to forsake these things. I pray that the Lord will cause our eyes to be opened that we may understand what is at stake.

Two major things that characterised the city of Sodom in Lot’s day also characterise our world and our lives today – financial security and comfort, and sensuality. This same pattern continues today. And that’s why Jesus said in Luke 17, remember Lot’s wife.

Lot’s wife invested her life just like her husband in something that had no future. What was going on in her mind? When she thought of what she was leaving behind she looked back and turned into a cold, unresponsive monument. She became a memorial to whoever passed by of those who shift their focus from the kingdom that cannot be shaken.

How many of us are in this situation – a people who were once hot for God and now all of a sudden have reached a state of complacency? The place of complacency is a slippery slope that leads to destruction. 

The Scriptures say that the fashion of this world passes away. So what is it that stands? He that doeth the will of God abides forever. All of us are guilty of living as though our lives are dependent upon the fortunes of this world. Yet this world is passing away. I am in no way saying that you should not work, because the Scriptures say that, if anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.

My question to you is, What is holding you back from giving up what God is asking you to give up? What is it that you are not willing to give up? What is it that would turn your eyes away from the focus God has given?

by Pastor Afolabi Oladele

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