14d (edited) • General discussion
Don’t turn and look back, your deliverance is ahead.
There is something sobering about Lot’s wife.
She believed enough to leave Sodom… but not enough to fully let it go.
“When they had brought them outside, one said, ‘Escape for your life. Do not look behind you… Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away.’”
— Genesis 19:17 (ESV)
“But Lot’s wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.”
— Genesis 19:26 (ESV)
God did not give unclear instruction.
He said leave.
Do not turn back.
I think many of us physically leave things long before our hearts do.
Sometimes God calls us out of places, relationships, mindsets, addictions, bitterness, fear, or seasons that are destroying us — and we keep looking back hoping something dead will suddenly live again.
But delayed obedience is still disobedience.
Jesus said:
“No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
— Luke 9:62
That scripture used to sound harsh to me.
Now I understand it differently.
You cannot walk fully into freedom while staying emotionally tied to the thing God delivered you from.
The enemy is not playing games with believers.
And the deeper your walk with God becomes, the deeper the testing often becomes too.
Not always through obvious sin…
but through grief, attachment, fear, loneliness, nostalgia, exhaustion, confusion, and the temptation to return to what feels familiar.
But this is where faith steps in.
“The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.”
— Exodus 14:14
“The battle is the Lord’s.”
— 1 Samuel 17:47
Real faith is not pretending life doesn’t hurt.
Real faith is obeying while it hurts.
It is trusting God enough not to go back to the ruins He already called you out of.
I’m learning that obedience is not just hearing the voice of God…
it is refusing to turn around once He speaks, don’t turn back and become a pillar of salt and miss your complete deliverance.
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