Don't Look Back

 Genesis 19:23 The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar. 24 Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven. 25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. 26 But Lot's wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

In the context of all the things we have been talking about so far this year - including breaking resolutions, one key is to not look back.  The people of Israel did it often after their Exodus, and many warnings are given in the New Testament to Christ-followers to not "fall back" into either their old sinful ways or their trust in anything but Christ.  What is the symbolism of salt? Possibly as a sign of purification and preservation.  In order for the family to be led forward, she needed to be left behind. Whatever the case, Lot's wife became nameless and her end a warning to us all. Don't look back, turn back, or fall back from what God has called us to. Let us go forward.