Genesis 19:25-26 (New Living Translation)
25) He utterly destroyed them, along with the other cities and villages of the plain, wiping out all the people and every bit of vegetation. 26) But Lot’s wife looked back as she was following behind him, and she turned into a pillar of salt.
Today during my lunch time I went to the store to acquire my lunch. As I left the building, I heard a voice from a car in the parking lot say, Hi Ms. Lisa. I turned to see who it was of even if I recognized the individual, but that was short lived, I waved, respond with a short hello and proceeded on my way. As I sat and ate my salad, one of my co-workers came in and I asked was she just taking lunch, and she retorted no, you just saw me, I was in the car, when you went to lunch. She relayed the story of her boyfriend saying hello, and them having a good laugh at the way I responded, she went on to say that they had discussed the fact that my reaction said a lot about what I have been through and that my tolerance for foolishness and guys just trying to holla was little to none. I began to share an overview of things I had lived through and and she said I can understand why you are the way you are now.
There are often times when things in our past will cause us to look back and get caught right there. To become frozen in time in one form or another. It will sometimes cause our tolerance to decrease and our abilities to be paralyzed. Whether the events are good or bad they can effect the way we live, interact, and communicate. Our ability to recognize that we need to move forward becomes engulfed in a swirling pool of past events and circumstances. Sometimes it causes us to live using the past as an excuse to be a certain way, or play the victim; then there are those times that cause us to become stronger and more aware of our surroundings. No matter what the past should only serve as a lesson to train us and better us. It should never be an excuse to hurt or to keep us from fully living and experiencing all that we should. If we say we trust God we should be aware that tests, trials and tribulations come as means to strengthen us and to make us trust and know God all the more, but it is the way we look at it.
Are you stuck looking back, so much so that you can not move forward? If so it is time to look to Jesus, for He offers life and perspective. Don't get caught looking back and becoming stuck in what you were or what happened in the past. We are to remember the past as means of strength and hope for tomorrow and lesson that we have learned or things we have been delivered from but never as an excuse or means to inflict pain on yourself or others. It is time to get up, get on and get over it, stop looking back at what was!
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