There is something dangerous about nostalgia when God has called you forward. In Genesis 19:26, we read one of the shortest yet most sobering verses in Scripture: “But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.” Lot’s wife had been given a clear command—do not look back. God was delivering her family from destruction, yet her heart was still tethered to what she was leaving behind. Looking back was not just a physical act. It was a heart posture. Jesus later reinforced this principle in Luke 9:62: “No one who puts his hand to Read More
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Mindset Mondays: Hanging Out in the Wilderness
Are you still hanging out in the Wilderness, the place of punishment? After the ten spies came back and gave a bad report, God gave them 40 years of wandering in the wilderness until all the men 20 years old and older were dead. He gave them one year of punishment for each day they spied out the land. Numbers 14:34 – According to the number of days in which you spied out the land [of Canaan], forty days, for each day, you shall bear and suffer a year for your sins and guilt, for forty years, and you shall know My displeasure [the Read More