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REMEMBER LOT'S WIFE

In the Gospel according to Luke, we read a very interesting verse. We read in Luke 17:32, "Remember Lot's wife." The Lord said this in the middle of discussing how we all should be prepared for the day of the Lord. He had just mentioned how the people from the flood were not prepared and, therefore, were all destroyed by the flood. The Lord also mentioned the people of Sodom and Gomorrah and how they also were destroyed because they were not prepared. The people of the flood and the people of Sodom and Gomorrah were completely caught off guard because they were thinking that things would always continue as they had for so many years. Is that not the thinking of so many even today? Every time we get up in the morning and begin our daily routine, we assume that the day will pretty much end like the day before. Many times this is the case, but one day it will not end the same way. One day it will be different because death or the end of the world will come our way. Will we be prepared, or will we be like the people of the flood or the people of Sodom and Gomorrah?

When the Lord told the people of His time that they were to remember Lot's wife, what was it about Lot's wife that the Lord wanted them to remember? At the time of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, two angels of the Lord went unto these cities and came to Lot's house and informed them how the cities would be destroyed They gave instructions to Lot and his family as to how it would be necessary for them to get out of the city in haste and not to look back. Lot and his family left, but only with the help of the angels. As they left the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot's wife looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt. Why did this happen, and why did she look back? She was turned into a pillar of salt because she disobeyed God. As to the question of why she looked back, of course all we can do here is speculate. But one very good possibility could have been that she did not really want to leave the life she had in Sodom all those years. Perhaps she did not want to leave behind the friends she had made while she lived there. Sometimes we can make the same mistake that Lot's wife might have made. We need to remember that sometimes it can be a dangerous thing to look back to the life we once lived.