Remember Lot’s Wife by L. A. S.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Sep 17, 1903

“Remember Lot’s Wife”

By L. A. S.

FOR the joy that was set before him, Jesus Christ, our example, “endured the cross, despising the shame,” and persevered without fainting or faltering to the end. His earthly pathway was darkened by the shadow of greater conflicts and

greater suffering than fall to the lot of any of his followers.

Jesus looked before him, and beheld the joy that awaited him at the end of his course. Looking back, he might have beheld the throne of glory which he had left to come into the human family, and thought of all that was once his in the royal courts; but he looked not back. Not once did his mind turn with longing to the pleasures left behind. His eyes were ever steadily fixed on the joy that was set before him, which he counted greater than all that had been relinquished.

How essential to the Christian that he look not back! He is called to leave pleasant homes and pleasant associations and occupations, to go to strange lands and suffer the loss of many things, and how natural that his thoughts should turn with longing to the pleasures he has left. Yet it is not this which will nerve him for the difficulties of the way in which he has set out. Its effect will be just the contrary. Longings for the things left behind quickly bring feelings of bitterness that paralyze the moral energies. “Remember Lot’s wife.”

The Christian, like his Master, must keep in view the joy that is set before him. That joy is greater than any that he can leave behind in this world. He leaves the pleasures of this world, not to go hopelessly into a joyless realm of hardships, but to go to a greater joy and to attain an “eternal weight of glory.” Let us keep in view the things to which we are going, and not those from which we are going. “Remember Lot’s wife.”

L. A. S.