![]() Not many have been turned to salt, but multitudes of professing Christians have been doomed by the desire for one more experience of the sin from which they were set free. It was as if her heart cried out for one more night in Sodom, one more experience of the sin which she had been called to forsake. Her looking back was not a glance brought on by the loud sound of thunder or a flash of lightning. ![]() She was so caught up with life in Sodom, that when God brought her out, she ignored the warnings and looked back. ![]() Lot’s wife illustrates the one who ignores the warning and allows herself to be entangled, again, in the things of the world. “Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.” Galatians 5:1 ![]() Satan even has a way of making the sin life which we used to live, look better than it really was. Unfortunately, even after we determine to follow Christ, we face temptation to return to the things from which we were saved. Matthew modeled that idea when he left his tax table, Peter and John when they left the fishing business, and you and I when we leave behind our past life, and seek to live for Christ. In other words, life, true life, abundant life, will not be found in holding things back from the Lord, but by giving up all to follow the Lord. Jesus tells us, if we want to save our lives, we must lose them. Lot and his family represent the Christian.
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