Remember Lot’s Wife

“Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back. Remember Lot’s wife.” Luke 17:28-32

When the angels came to Sodom to take Lot and his family out of the city before the fire fell, they told Lot and his wife not to look back at the city. Lot’s wife looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt. Her life ended because she could not overcome the overwhelming desire that she had for the things that she and her husband had in Sodom. She did not know what was going to happen to her if she looked back. She did not realize what that one fleeting glance was going to cost her.

Jesus used Lot’s wife as an illustration to help us understand how important it is to be ready for His return. In order to live the kind of life that will enable us to be prepared to meet Him, we have to understand what is really important. We have to place more value on eternal things than we do on temporal things. If Jesus came today, is there anything in your life that you would have a difficult time letting go of? He wants us to be so eager for His return that we won’t even need to look back.