"Remember Lot's Wife."

(Gen. 19: 1-29; Luk. 17: 32)

The Bible doesn't gives us her personal name. She's just "Mrs. Lot" to us, Lot's wife.
However, we can learn plenty about how to prioritize our lives from her negative example. Her heart belonged to this world--not to the condition of her soul or the spiritual well-being of her family. We can know this because of her hesitancy in leaving Sodom when she learned of its imminent destruction, and her ultimate demise in being turned into a pillar of salt for looking back at it when she was told not to do so. God wasn't joking, but she failed to take Him seriously.

Sodom must have been a beautiful place to look upon from the mountain top, for Lot readily selected it when his uncle, Abram, gave him first pick of the land about them (Gen. 13: 1-13). The Bible says that the men of Sodom were wicked. This was the case already when Lot arrived there. Yet he willingly chose to expose his wife and daughters to such an environment. In this respect, he failed his family in not being a strong spiritual leader for them.

That doesn't excuse Mrs. Lot's behavior though. Why, oh why, did she look back!? Perhaps they lived in luxury by the standards of their time. Perhaps the Lots had the finest home and material goods in the region. We just don't know. We only know that Mrs. Lot's affection for whatever was there cost her her life.

Just a personal self-examination question for today: What do I have a white-knuckled grip on that could possibly cost me my salvation? Think on it.

Love Ya,
God Bless!