A primary verb; to speak or say. God is patient, but there is an end to his patience. Don't die so much to self that you never come back to life again. The reason is three-fold: First, looking back during a race BREAKS YOUR CONCENTRATION. Thank You, Lord, for Your grace and mercy that pulled us kicking and screaming out of a life of conscious sin.
Have the inside scoop on this song? Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away! " She was being saved, was being delivered, was in the process of getting to her destination. Remember, Jesus also said that no person can serve both God and the world system. "No Turning Back" by Brandon Heath. Jesus said don't look back to home. Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular. For thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this. He lived there in a tent, and so did Isaac and Jacob, who were later given the same promise.
The first lesson is that when the time comes to flee, flee! God doesn't want us to try to go back and undo or change anything. Why stay in this sinful world when the world to come offers us eternal life, joy, peace, and more happiness and bliss than we can ever remember here? What Does it Mean to Put your Hand on the Plow and Look Back? (Luke 9:62. This may be a season of suffering, but it is also a season where we will see God move like never before. It will either be God or the world. Now go with me down to verse 8? They failed to look forward to what God had for them, and they failed to thank God for freeing them from their past. It is not healthy to look back at a past that God has told you to leave behind.
In three words, I can sum up everything I've learned about life. One day I went to visit her and her husband and as we talked, she poured forth a succession of serious problems in her former life—one right after the other. Often this is the time when people stop and evaluate the days they've already lived. When we're saved, God wants us to come to the realization of our full and complete pardon in Jesus Christ. He said, "Let him who is on the housetop not come down. " Raising Godly Children. Resource reading: Genesis 19:1-29. Fill me now with your wonderful Spirit, never to be the same again. Bible scriptures on not looking back. This is corroborated by Matthew 24:17 and Mark 13:15, in Jesus' Olivet prophecy. Weymouth New Testament. 23 The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered Zoar.
The Bible says in Acts 8 that he made "havoc" of the church. Many times we dread letting go of the good things in our lives because we fail to see God's merciful heart in asking us to let go of those things. So don't focus on the old, on the past, but dwell on Christ, and focus walking towards Him. Luke 9:62 Then Jesus declared, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back is fit for the kingdom of God. He goes to his sons-in-law, his daughter's husbands, and tells them to flee the city, but the text says that they believed he was joking and paid him no mind. That was when Lot looked towards the fertile Jordan Valley and chose the green pastures near Sodom, probably at the southern end of the Dead Sea. Luke 17:26-32, NKJV. A good date is no substitute for God's grace. Be a source of misery.
The way to God was open to Lot's wife because of her husband's conversion (I Corinthians 7:13-14). Don't look back… Genesis 19:16-17. And he didn't want His people, the righteous, longing for life again in such wicked cities. Refuse to live your life in reverse! It was earthly; what God was trying to give Lot, Lot's wife, and their daughters was heavenly, from above, not from below. Lot was tormented every day by the conduct of the Sodomites. Sodom was Sin City in Genesis. We believe that God will save us when we repent of our sins, get baptized, and receive the Holy Spirit through the laying on of hands. Maybe you're at a point in your life where God is asking you to move on, but your scared because you don't know what's ahead of you. Bible do not look back. You CAN be "in the world" but not "of the world. Lingering, we too have nonetheless been pulled away, sharing the hope of a better life. Do you like what you are reading?
Instead of leaving her city with a dreadful heart, she should have left with a grateful heart to see that God was merciful and had plans to bless her and the family. If what we have in front of us, that is, Heaven, is so much better than what we have on this earth, why are we running to Heaven while looking back at this earth and the things of this world? Ron Edmondson pastors Immanuel Baptist Church. The hare was so confident of his ability to outrun the tortoise that he stopped and took a nap. Determination (I press on). And just like that, your life will never be the same! This certainly does not mean that we must flee all things in this world, and adopt an attitude of pietistic withdrawal from the stage of human endeavour. Often I'm reminded that there's nothing we can do. A divine dissatisfaction is essential for spiritual progress. Luke 9:62 Biblia Paralela. Sometimes we think about our successes and believe that we have already attained our goal. 10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. But on the way Lot's wife looks back to Sodom – contrary to the explicit command of the angels, verse 26.
Heavenly Father, Forgive me of my sin! Ask us a question about this song. If we regret answering God's calling, then we might be in danger of being counted as unfit for the kingdom of God. If we have discipline - we get the prize. From eu and a derivative of tithemi; well placed, i. appropriate. The power of sin is broken off of you! Jesus answered, "Anyone who starts plowing and keeps looking back isn't worth a thing to God's kingdom! If that person struggles with homosexuality, then that person will never date someone of the opposite sex. The problem with fixing our eyes on the past is that we miss out on enjoying the present and the future that God has for us. Turn to Psalm 103 for an amazing promise of God's full pardon: "1 Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. So remember, don't look back. She remained hesitant about casting the old life overboard.
He's been there since my first breath! What you have dealt with others will deal with in the future. Majority Standard Bible. 13 Just as a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him. And in Philippians 3:12-13, the apostle Paul said, "I press on, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead. English Revised Version. "As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, "Flee for your lives! Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed. " It also features the profile of the characteristics of Godly heroes, written in language that relates to today's living. Only through doing God's will can we reach our destiny. Decide today to quit living in the past and stop looking back! Lot and his family lived in Sodom and Gomorrah, the city that God was about to destroy due to the sin and evil that was going on in that place.