OT DAY 64 - You're Free! Don't Look Back! (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

Today's Reading: Genesis 19:15-38

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English(ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis 19&version=ESV

Chinese: hhttps://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=創 世 記 19&version=CUV

Bible Study

      The angles saved Lot, his wife and their two daughters. But, why Lot's wife look back and became a pillar of salt? Why Lot's two daughter slept with his father? 

Let's take a look at what Professor John Goldingay says (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Goldingay) :

    

     One current motif is the need to be prepared to take action when God is about to act.  Lot seems to be a figure who is torn…the story shows he has also been pulled down by it, to judge from the offer of his daughters.  He has to be dragged out of Sodom, literally and metaphorically.  And he wants to stay as near there as possible.  It seems that Lot doesn't get it…
     There is the need not to look back.  The verb suggests more than a mere casual glance.  Lot's wife is also torn.  Perhaps she is imagining the potential sons-in-law they have had to abandon.  Her gaze is another expression of hesitation, and awareness of what she will lose by allowing God to pull her out of a city like Sodom, and she becomes frozen in her gaze.   

John Goldingay. Genesis for Everyone - Part Two. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010, p.32.

      Do you look back on those things God asked you to put aside? What is the consequence if you look back?    

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe":  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

Spiritual Journal

    The title I heard from Jesus today is: You're free!  Don't look back!

    What I got from Jesus today is a reminder as well as a warning that we can't look back on those things we have left behind because we want to follow Jesus.

    The reality is, lots of Christians look back and live in a life of bitterness, darkness and unsatisfied. We can see how Lot's wife became a pillar of salt. I have seen so many painful examples that quite a number of Christians become pillars of salt too!     

     On the other hand, we can see the influence of evil culture. Lot and his daughters lived in a very evil culture and so his two daughters could think of that terrible plan to sleep with their father to get sons. What we can see is that the evil culture begets evil people. To them, that was their culture and that might be nothing wrong about it, everybody was doing that.

     So, when we are free, don't look back! Move forward with Jesus and don't look back! 

Dear Lord Jesus,

Lead us not to look back our dark past but to walk with you each day so that we are free.  In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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