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What does the Bible say about not looking back?
“And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that (the Lord) said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain lest though be consumed.” Unfortunately, Lot’s wife looked back toward Sodom and Gomorrah and was turned into a pillar of salt.
Why does God not want us to look back?
God doesn’t want us to try to go back and undo or change anything. He wants us to press on and let Him show us the possibilities of our future. Rather than going back to try to fix our mistakes, God wants us the do the next right thing to eliminate the effects of them.
What is the danger of looking back in the Bible?
One cannot move ahead while looking back. No vehicle can go backward and forward at the same time. The Bible outlines that losers and failures are those who look back and dwell in the past; and when we dwell in the past fear, bitterness and un-forgiveness persist!
What happens in chapter 19 of Genesis?
Lot and his family flee toward the nearby city of Zoar while God rains sulfur and fire onto Sodom and Gomorrah. In an echo of the flood story, God destroys Sodom for the wickedness displayed earlier in the chapter. Demonstrating his mercy, though, he allows Lot and his family to escape because of Lot’s righteousness.
Where in the Bible does it say forgetting those things which are behind?
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14. I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
What does God say about your past?
In verse 12, God says, “For I will forgive their wickedness and remember their sins no more.” This is where God changes the past of all who commit their lives to Him. He forgives our sins and forgets them! Our past has changed, because, in God’s eyes, we have no past, only a great future.
What is Philippians 3 talking about?
Paul’s re-evaluation of values through Christ (3:1–11) Paul tells his own story to draw the people’s minds back to Christ, how he ’emptied himself’ for Christ’s sake and how his ultimate goal was now to follow the “upward call of God” (verse 14) to the end.
What does it mean when God said let the dead bury the dead?
The phrase let the dead bury the dead is another way to say put your spiritual responsibilities to God before all other duties. Sometimes people use this as a way to say forget the past or what is done is done.