I was reading in the Bible the other day about Lot’s wife. The lady was such a numbskull that she didn’t even listen to angels.

When Sodom and Gomorrah were being burned to the ground she could not resist looking back and as a result became a pillar of salt.

I wonder sometimes if the angels had not mentioned to her that she shouldn’t look back if she would have been so tempted.

Isn’t it that which we can not have which tempts us more than that which we can have?

More so than that, how many of us turn completely away from our sin when we confess it?

Do we think about it still? Do we fantasize about the sinful pleasure even though we are running away from it? Do we look back longing for it as if we wished it was not in our past anymore and instead fully in our present?

Or do we stay stuck in the mud of shame, wondering how we could have ever done that despicable thing which at one time so enslaved us?

I think Christians may have a tendency to do all of these things. We many times look back on our sin with a kind of lustful longing or get caught in the stranglehold of self condemnation.

This hinders God’s Spirit within us. In the new testament Jesus says he is the vine and we are the branches but that is only if we choose not to become a pillar of salt.