FAITH CAPSULE: Every wrong decision is a decision against God.
Genesis 19
In the journey of life, every wrong decision made is a decision against God. Whatever is wrong is not God. God cannot be wrong especially when we seek counsel in the living word of God. Making a wrong decision is the evidence of moving away from God’s direction. Making a decision outside of God is despising the word of God. Proverbs 13:13 warned us, “He who despises the word will be destroyed, But he who fears the commandment will be rewarded.” It takes a lack of fear of God to actually despise His word. Destruction is what becomes of one who despises the word of God.
Disobedience to the word is equal to despising the word and positioning self for destruction. After God had decided to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah because of the sinful nature of the land, He sent warning to Lot and his wife. “…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) How could it have been better said? An escape from self-destruction demands setting off sight from the past. The command was obviously too difficult for Lot’s wife to obey because she decided to despise the Word of God. The Bible records that Lot’s wife looked back behind him and she became a pillar of salt. (Genesis 19:26) What is in your past that cannot be forgotten and has caused you not to move forward when God commanded you to move? Looking back comes in different ways. For example, the inability to forgive, forget and move forward is an evidence of looking back when God repeatedly command us to forgive. Also, when God moves you forward to a different ground for your deliverance purpose and you allow complaint to occupy you, it becomes a failure to letting go of the past.
The Israelites could not let go their past as they resolved to complaint which is the evidence of not allowing the past be in the past. At a point their complaining turned to negative confession before God. God responded in Numbers 14:28, “Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the LORD, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above.’” (Numbers 14:28) When God says move forward then it is time to move In obedience. It does not worth to decide against God’s command. Lot’s wife decided against God’s command by looking back and she became destroyed.
Prayer for today: Ask for God’s mercy to keep you out of making wrong decision in the journey of a new beginning. Pray that every decision in the past which is affecting your life negatively should be reversed to positive in Jesus name.