Look not behind thee

“And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord: Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die: Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me  escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live. And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken. Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.”

When the Lord calls us t0 move we should be ready to move straight away. In this case they had to go or die. This kind of urgency is sometimes demanded by God but we should be ready just in case we are in urgent times. The Lord told Lot and his family not to look back. In this case the backward look represents that fact that they wanted to be back in Sodom rather than free from the wrath of God. This is similar to the parable that the Lord Jesus Christ told in Matthew 22: 1-15. In that case a person came to the wedding dressed in the wrong garment. Garments have to do with our holy life as we can see in Rev 19: 8. However the wrong garment represents salvation by works while the fine linen garment represents the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ and the fact that we come to God in His name alone. Lot and his family were warned to long for the things that were soon to be destroyed. Any backward look would represent a longing for those things. The same is true for any Christian. Every sinner wants to be accepted in their won right but every Christian is accepted in the beloved (Eph 1: 6).

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(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)