'Looking Back From A Safe Place.'
Genesis 19:28.
a) When Abraham looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah
b) And all the land in the plain,
c) He saw smoke rising from the land
d) Like the thick smoke from a furnace.
(Through this QT I understand that Abraham was Looking Back From A Safe Place)
PRAY: Only to be Looking Back From A Safe Place. (Just look back - do not necessarily go back!)
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'The God Of Peace Did It.'
Hebrews 13:20.
a) The God of Peace
b) Brought the Great Shepherd of the Sheep,
c) Our Lord Jesus,
d) Back to life
e) Through the Blood of an Eternal Promise.
(This Second one reminds me that The God Of Peace Did It)
PRAY: That we will always be grateful for and remember the Blood of an Eternal Promise - the Blood of Jesus Christ.
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Chris.
Abraham was very careful about looking back. Remember Lot's wife, she looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt! The only reason that we may look back is to learn, definitely it should not be just to reminisce! People who are comforted only by looking back cannot move forward well. They are stuck in what was. Many of us who are getting older lose much of our vision and spiritual alertness if we spend too much time looking back. When we reach our 'safe place' it is the place where we should be preparing to move on into the future and not looking back.
God has a life for all of His Children to live, and He wants us to live it 'to the full' and for His Glory. It really does not matter how young or old we are, we simply need to be getting on with what God wants us to do. Abraham was already an elderly man at the time of this incident, but he was an elderly man with Faith!
When we are moving forward with Faith, whether it be Believing natural family, Church family or individual Believer, we will surely be pleasing to the Lord.
The emotional (and sometimes spiritual) 'pull' of home can sometimes be very strong, but the leading of the Holy Spirit, and not our emotions, should always be the determining factor of home visits for the Servant of the Lord.
If we need to 'learn lessons' from our past experiences, let us learn them, teach them to others when appropriate, and move on with God!
