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.
— Genesis 19:17
But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
— Genesis 19:26
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents. Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
— 1 Corinthians 10:6-12
Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
— Hebrews 10:38-39
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
— 2 Peter 2:18-22
And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
— Romans 13:11-14
She Left Her Heart Behind Her, by J. C. Ryle.
Remember Lot’s wife.
— Luke 17:32
We should observe in these verses what a solemn warning our Lord gives us against an unsound profession. Lot’s wife went far in religious profession. She was the wife of a righteous man. She was connected through him with Abraham, the father of the faithful. She fled with her husband from Sodom, in the day when he escaped for his life by God’s command.
But Lot’s wife was not really like her husband. Though she fled with him, she left her heart behind her. She wilfully disobeyed the strict injunction which God had laid upon her. She looked back towards Sodom, and was at once struck dead. She was turned into a pillar of salt and perished in her sins.
Remember her, says our Lord. Remember Lot’s wife.
Lot’s wife is meant to be a beacon and a warning to all professing Christians. It may be feared that many will be found like her in the day of our Lord’s second coming. are many in the present day, who go a certain length in religion. They speak the language of Canaan. They use all the outward ordinances of religion.
But all this time their souls are not right in the sight of God. The world is in their hearts, and their hearts are in the world. And by and by, in the day of sifting, their unsoundness will be exposed. their Christianity will prove rotten at the core. The case of Lot’s wife will not stand alone.
Let us remember Lot’s wife and resolve to be genuine in our religion. A mere formal religion will never save our souls. Let us never rest until we have the true grace of God in our hearts and have no desire to look back to the world.
Remember Lot’s wife.
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