Don't Look Back!

Luke 9:62
And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

The Christians' 3 great adversaries are the World, the Flesh & the Devil. We are often tempted to return to "wallow in the mire" that our Saviour's blood delivered us from. This temptation is often difficult to resist when we are not walking with God in the power of the Holy Ghost. Why is it that the very thing we were thankful to be delivered from and forgiven for is so alluring to our "old man." Romans chapter six clearly exhorts us to "reckon ourselves dead" and Jesus our Saviour commanded us to "take up our cross" and die daily. II Corinthians 7:1 urges us to "cleanse ourselves from the filthiness of the flesh and spirit." When I look back to the way I lived my life before Jesus saved me, I become totally disgusted. Those things that I called "fun," God calls sin. We as Christians are to have the kind of testimony that affects the unsaved and sinners. When they affect us we become more tempted by the things of this world and the desires of our flesh. It is a sad reminder of our spiritual condition.

Genesis 19:26
But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

We often resemble Lots's wife when we are taken with temptation. Notice that she did not just "look back," she "looked back from behind him." As the angels lead the family away to safety, she lagged behind her husband. Her heart and life was back in that wicked city that God would destroy. Many of the things that capture our time and attention will be destroyed as well. Sin will not be admitted in the gates of Glory! Take heed and don't look back. Instead, Look up! "For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ." (Philippians 3:20)