Becoming a Woman of Wisdom and Grace

I haven’t posted in awhile. Life has been rough to say the least. But here we are at the beginning of a new year. So why not leave everything behind and start fresh!

Lately the story of Lot’s wife has been everywhere around me. I’ve thought about it, seen it on my feeds and people tell me things that correlate with the story. I even started looking into where they think they found the place his wife was turned to salt.

Genesis 19 is a great story about not looking back. We have all heard the story of Sodom and Gamorrah. These two cities were filled with sin and God destroyed them. Before He did that though, he warned Lot and his family to flee by sending an Angel. They were specifically told not to look back, to go to the mountains and turn from their wicked ways. God had a big plan to bring them out of destruction and into a life following Him. As they were fleeing, Lots wife looked back. She didn’t just look at the distraction though, she looked back at where her life was and how she missed it. As soon as she did that she was turned into a pillar of salt.

Lets take away a few things from this. She was living in sin, God wanted Lot’s entire family out to save them and she looked back longingly for what she had there. This shows disobedience, weak faith and attachment to worldly things. So she was turned into something that erodes things, salt.

In Luke 17:32-33 it tells us “Remember Lot’s wife. Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.”

We have to be willing to let everything go to follow Him. If not we will slowly erode and become bitter about losing the past things like how salt makes things bitter over time. Instead we should embrace where He is taking us on our journey. Trust the process because He doesn’t always give you everything you want, but he makes sure to give you what you need.

I love how this story is perfect for the New Year. Jesus has laid it on my heart for about a month now to dig deeper in this. He wanted me to be prepared to leave things in the past today, to move forward and not live there. Believe me when I say, this month has not been easy. Challenges come when change in about to happen. Its testing you to see if you are ready.

Isaiah 43;18-19 states ” But forget all that… it is nothing compared to what I am going to do. For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.

I’m not sure about other places but in the south we have traditions of eating certain foods for “good luck” in the New Year. I don’t really believe in the sayings but the whole meal is just kind of a comfort to me. We do greens, cornbread, black-eyed peas and pork of some kind. Each thing has its own meaning and there are different variations of how eating each one will bring you this or that in the New Year, but the only one I really liked to think about is the new fact my mom told me today about the pork. We eat pork in the New Year because Pigs/Hogs only graze forward, never backward. They show us that you should only move forward in life. I thought that was so cool how I have been thinking about this today and she told me that fact, it made it all come together. (Moms have a way of doing that lol)

In the end, don’t be Salty and move forward. God will put the things in front of you that you need. Go to those things. Don’t look back at the past because those are just worldly wants and not what you need to grow.