Before destroying Sodom and Gomorrah, angels of the Lord rescued Lot and his family from the city. Then they said: \u2018Run for your lives! Don\u2019t look behind you, and don\u2019t stop on the plain. Run for the hills, or you\u2019ll be swept away.\u2019<\/i> (Genesis 19:17 GWT) <\/p>\n
But the record reads: \u2018His wife looked back behind him and she became a pillar of salt.\u2019<\/i><\/p>\n
There\u2019s an important lesson here for each of us: resist the temptation to linger in the quicksand of past mistakes\u2014either your own or other people\u2019s. It can be hard to see ahead when horrendous things have happened to you in the past. But when you get bogged down in the past, you miss what God has for you in the present, and fail to see its connection to your future. The good news is that it\u2019s not too late to allow God to use you and move you forward on your journey. He can heal the wounds others have inflicted on you. He can make you wiser as a result of the poor decisions you made in the past. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s not too late to become who you might have been. God delights in transforming our weakness into strength. He can create treasure from what you\u2019ve discarded as rubbish. Even if you\u2019ve backslidden and detoured from the path you know He wants you to follow, now is the time to return to His road. <\/p>\n
\u2018\u201cI know the plans I have for you,\u201d says the Lord. \u201cThey are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.\u201d\u2019<\/i> (Jeremiah 29:11 NLT) So move forward\u2014and don\u2019t look back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Before destroying Sodom and Gomorrah, angels of the Lord rescued Lot and his family from the city. Then they said: \u2018Run for your lives! Don\u2019t look behind you, and don\u2019t stop on the plain. Run for the hills, or you\u2019ll be swept away.\u2019 (Genesis 19:17 GWT) But the record reads: \u2018His wife looked back behind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}