Beware of worldly entanglements! How many there are, who, like Lot's wife have apparently set out to the Zoar of safety, yet who linger and perish in the plains of Sodom! They hear the terrors of the law; they are roused by the threat of the coming conflagration. They think of fleeing they have actually set out.
The world they have left, has too many attractions and fascinations! Like Demas, they give the preference to these. They look back to Sodom and perish eternally! Beware of yielding to temptation!
Lot's wife had gotten out of reach of the summoning's and jeers of her evil companions. She had reached the brow of the hill and was apparently completely safe. She had been rescued from the idolatries of Chaldea, and the superstitions of Egypt. She had been plucked from the burning fires of Sodom and yet she perished notwithstanding!
How sad it is, to see a soul that had set out on the way to Heaven, that had escaped the temptations of youth, that got rid of worldly entanglements, that got out of Sodom, and was on its way to Zoar, yet perishing with salvation in sight!
[John MacDuff]
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Genesis 19:25-26 ... And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
Luke 17:32-33 ... Remember Lot's wife. Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it. ❤
