WAY OF ESCAPE
Genesis 19:1-18

Salvation is the only way out to escape from this world of wickedness, in this modern day Sodom and Gomorrah. Sodom and Gomorrah was the place where all kinds of sin and sinning existed, excelled and reproduced. When it was time for God to descend with His judgment, He saw only Lot and his family as the ones worthy to be granted salvation. Just as sin was reigning in the time of Sodom and Gomorrah, so it is today. God definitely will not overlook sin and He will bring judgment at His appointed time. There is a way of escape just as there was for Lot and his family. Lot and his family’s escape package was delivered by the angels who were sent by God, “So it came to pass, when they had brought them outside, that he said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.” (Genesis 19:17) In the package of escape, there should be no looking back for any believer that wants to get to the Promise Land. Looking back will cause a set back; a set back will tempt sitting back on what was in the past. Sitting back on what was in the past does not have a place with God because it generates complaints. As a believer, there should be no dwelling in the past if the sights are set for the promise of the Lord. Escaping from the past is only in looking up on to the Lord. The Psalmist knew better when he stated in Psalm 123:1, “Unto You I lift up my eyes, O You who dwell in the heavens.” When the wife of Lot looked back, against the warning of the angels, her journey was terminated. There is absolutely nothing that looking back can offer in any route of escape from the world of sin and sinning. In the way of escape, when you refused to look back by following the direction fully, the possibility of staying where you could be a victim of the wicked is zero. Have you been looking anywhere outside of looking up to God in this journey of life? God said in Isaiah 45:22-23, “Look to Me, and be saved, All you ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.23 I have sworn by Myself; The word has gone out of My mouth in righteousness, And shall not return, That to Me every knee shall bow, Every tongue shall take an oath.”” It cannot be said any better than the way God says it. Also, the word of God cannot and will never fail. A true way of escape is only in looking up to the One that created both up and down.
Prayer for today: O Lord God have mercy on me, let me not look back away from where you are taking me. Help me Lord in Jesus’ name.