REMEMBER LOT'S WIFE
(Luke 17:26-37)
Jesus is warning each and
everyone of us to fight for our salvation in fear and trembling without looking
back. He's warning against lazing about instead of being focused on being
saved. He calls for readiness and alertness. He uses Lot's wife as an example
of a character we should never emulate.
Lot's wife disobeyed the warning
not to look back. What was she missing in Sodom? What's there to miss in what
should be destroyed? For you not to be destroyed there are indeed certain
things you must definitely have to destroy or rather allow God to destroy them.
If you don't destroy these, they will end up destroying you.
These elements of destruction may
be your attachments to certain vices. They may be sinful relationships, they
may be covenants with the devil, just name it. Break away from such bonds
before they break you.
Work on yourself. The journey to
heaven is a personal one. Remember Lot's wife. You may have started as a
family, as a group, as an organization, as a fellowship etc. But don't forget
that you should not allow them to make you disobey God. Try to carry your
husband or wife along to the heavenly journey but when he or she refuses, do
not allow him or her to pull you down. Move on, remember Lot's wife. Try your
best to carry your family's issues but don't let them weigh you down in
journeying to God. Don't allow anything make you go back to those things you
have left behind to follow Christ.
Leave those old bad habits at
Sodom and move on. Leave those bad unrepentant friends and ride on. Don't go
back to weariness in prayers, don't go back to missing Masses. Don't go back to
cheating, don't go back to sexual immorality and other forms of immorality,
don't go back to fraud and cultism.
Have you said goodbye to those
things? Mean it and move on.
Listen, you do not know when the
Lord will come. But his coming will spell salvation for some and destruction
for others. Do not fail to learn from what happened to Lot's wife.
Let us pray
Loving Saviour, thank you for
ever wishing that we be saved and not destroyed. Save us from the temptation of
looking back and admiring the evils world and the dark world of sin from where
you are transferring us to the kingdom of light. May we be disciplined enough to do every day of
our life what you have called us to do and through them give you glory, through
Christ our Lord. Amen
God bless your Friday (32nd Week,
Ordinary Time)
Rev Fr Julian O Ekeh
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