* Pray for revival, reformation, and awakening within the visible church in America.
* Pray for MIC Discipleship on Wednesdays and Sundays this school year.
* Pray for the leaders of GFC. That the Lord might revive our hearts according to His Word and that we might be anointed by the Holy Spirit. And pray Psalm 73:25 for us.
* Pray for MIC Share your Faith Saturdays at Jeremy's home for Jr. high- College students.
* Pray for a Bible-saturated, Christ-intoxicating revolution to take place in the local, state, and federal levels of government in the USA.
They want to keep just as near to Sodom
as possible!
(J.
R. Miller, "The
Outcome of Lot's Choice" 1908)
"Run for your lives! Do not stop anywhere in the plain. Do not look
back! Escape to the mountain, or you will die!"
Genesis 19:17
This is still the gospel message. We are in danger of God's
judgment--and must escape from it--if we would live. We must not stay
anywhere in all the plain of sin--for there is no safe spot, no
shelter anywhere, no place where the fires of judgment will not fall.
Some people would like to compromise they are willing to flee from
some sins--but not from others. There are some professed
Christians who
like to stay on the borders of their old life. They are
continually asking whether they can do this or that, go here
or there--and still be Christians. They want
to keep just as near to Sodom as possible--so as not to be
burnt up in Sodom's destruction! The answer to all such questions is,
"Run for your lives! Do not stop anywhere in the plain. Do not look
back! Escape to the mountain, or you will die!" Even the borders are
unsafe! The only safe place is the mountain, the mountain where
Christ's Cross stands!
Lot's wife 'looked back'. There had been a specific command, "Do not
look back!" Why Lot's wife looked back is not explained. Was it curiosity
to see the nature of the terrible destruction that she heard
roaring behind her? Or was it her dismay as she thought of her
beautiful home, with all its wealth of furnishing and decoration, and
all her jewels and garments and other possessions--which were now being
consumed in the great conflagration?
It would seem to be, that she was appalled at the thought of leaving
and losing all her beloved possessions, and paused in her flight and
looked back, with the hope that possibly she might yet run back and
snatch some of the ornaments or gems--something, at least, from the
awful destruction. "But Lot's wife looked back--and she became a pillar
of salt!"
"Remember Lot's wife!" Luke 17:32. We should not miss the
'lesson' which our Lord Himself teaches us from the tragic fate of this
woman: we cannot have both worlds! Lot's wife could have
escaped with her husband and her daughters--but she could escape only
by resolutely and determinedly leaving everything she had in Sodom. Her
love for her possessions, cost her her life!
Just so, there are thousands today, to whom God's message comes, "Run
for your lives! Do not stop anywhere in the plain. Do not look
back! Escape to the mountain, or you will die!" They somewhat desire to
follow Christ--but their love for the world is so intense that they
cannot give it up--they cannot renounce it. They must decide, however,
which they will renounce--Christ or the world. They cannot keep both!
In Lot's wife--we have an example of one who was almost saved--and
yet lost! She was lost because she loved the world.
"Remember Lot's wife!"
