Hello readers. How have you all been? Today, the Holy Spirit has been reminding me not to turn back. Have you all experienced something in the past, and the past is holding you back from moving ahead?
It can be a relationship.
It can be some dark memories that have been strongholds in your life that have limited your movement ahead.
It can be some past financial mishap that has trapped you inside and is an unexplainable mess.
Or it can just be a solid wrong mindset that has been your wrong belief system.
If we look at the Bible, some scriptures remind us not to look back. One of the famous stories is the story of Lot’s wife.
The story is recounted in Genesis 19: 1–38. Lot his wife and two daughters were visited by two angels who urged them to flee the city of Sodom before its imminent destruction by God. As they fled, Lot’s wife disobeyed the angels’ command to not look back and was turned into a pillar of salt.
Genesis chap 19: 17: As they fled, the angels warned them, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stay anywhere in the valley; escape to the mountains, or you will be swept away.”
Genesis chap 19: 26: ”Lot ran, his daughters close behind. “But his wife, from behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.”
Why did Lot’s wife disobey here? Why did she look back? She may have longed for the things behind.
Looking back here can refer to ”to regard” , ”to consider ”, or ”to pay attention to”.
Do you all remember when the Lord has called you to do something for Him? Do you all remember His clear instructions for your life. Do you all remember deep down in your Spirit?
Have you all paid attention to the wrong things in life?
You know and know you need to do certain things in life. However, challenges and distractions in life may limit you from moving forward. The main issue is that you keep looking back. You keep turning back. You may be turning yourself back to your old self. Your old way of thinking. Your old way of doing things is not right in the eyes of the Lord.
The Lord has been reminding me many times of the importance of obedience as well. As believers in Christ, we can only move forward by the Grace of God. We must be obedient to whatever He has called us to do.
Ephesians chap 4 :22-24 22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
As we spend more time with the Word of God,with the Holy Spirit,our former way of life is replaced with this Life of God in us that we have.
Things become different. The way we look and perceive things becomes different. This is simply because we are no longer our old selves.A new self has been created in the likeness of God.It is a daily process that we come before the Lord with this renewed self.
I would like to encourage each of my readers here not to turn back or look back.Stop paying attention to unnecessary things in your life.Your future is bright.Very bright.You just need to move forward ,being obedient to the call that the Lord has called you into.
It may be a new phase ahead of you. Trust the Lord and do what is needed. His promise is never to leave you nor forsake you.
Say this today : I thank you Lord I am never turning back.I am moving forward by His Grace alone.-R.J.JOHN
Prayer for today : I thank you Lord for each and everyone of us today.I thank you we are never turning back.Help us know we are your children .In Jesus name.Amen
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