I got this from The Daily Catholic...very inspiring piece of reflections...thought I would like to share it with everyone out there...
As Lot and his wife left Sodom they were told not to look back but Lot's wife didn't listen and was turned into a pillar of salt.
How many times may have we found ourselves following the actions of Lot's wife and not that of Lot .
So often in life God tells us not to look back but we so often have the desire to do so. There are various reasons one may choose to look back. For some it's to laugh at those who are being destroyed, for others there may be the hope that things will be better than when we left, that things might change and that there may be hope for a brighter future.
Those who choose to look back are missing the most important thing in life to succeed as the Lord desires us to and that is to trust in the words of God when he says, ?Don't look back.?
When we question God by looking back we've lost our trust in Him. It is not God then who destroys us, we destroy ourselves. We must not question God but only trust that he has his reasons. He knows when he takes us away from the pain in life that we've experienced that if we dwell on the evils that were once a part of our lives it will in time destroy us. We are destroyed, not because God wants to destroy us but because we allow ourselves to be.
We must pray each day for the faith and trust in God that Lot had, moving forward and not dwelling on the past.
There are those times that we have found ourselves living the ways of the people of Sodom and Gomorra and God then sets us on the right track, leading us in a new direction. If we can not let go and keep looking back we too will destroy ourselves.
As Lot and his wife left Sodom they were told not to look back but Lot's wife didn't listen and was turned into a pillar of salt.
How many times may have we found ourselves following the actions of Lot's wife and not that of Lot .
So often in life God tells us not to look back but we so often have the desire to do so. There are various reasons one may choose to look back. For some it's to laugh at those who are being destroyed, for others there may be the hope that things will be better than when we left, that things might change and that there may be hope for a brighter future.
Those who choose to look back are missing the most important thing in life to succeed as the Lord desires us to and that is to trust in the words of God when he says, ?Don't look back.?
When we question God by looking back we've lost our trust in Him. It is not God then who destroys us, we destroy ourselves. We must not question God but only trust that he has his reasons. He knows when he takes us away from the pain in life that we've experienced that if we dwell on the evils that were once a part of our lives it will in time destroy us. We are destroyed, not because God wants to destroy us but because we allow ourselves to be.
We must pray each day for the faith and trust in God that Lot had, moving forward and not dwelling on the past.
There are those times that we have found ourselves living the ways of the people of Sodom and Gomorra and God then sets us on the right track, leading us in a new direction. If we can not let go and keep looking back we too will destroy ourselves.
reached out for stars at 10:49 AM
2 Comments:
This was a very helpful and thought provoking reflection. My take is we can look back to treasure the hand of God in our lives. But we are also reminded to look forward to focus on Christ which is harder to do because there are so many distractions along the way. Sometimes we stop altogether when we got lost or feel that another path seems better and more attractive. I was told "not to listen to God." Yet the effect of that statement is to PRAY more than ever.
Ooi Mark.. that was.. magic.. haha.. but yeah, a really meaningful reflection.. i'll plagiarise from your plagiarism haha.. :p
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