2nd Shortest verse in bible : Remember Lot’s wife.
Luke 17: 32


Who is Lot? and what happened to His wife?
Read Genesis 19: 12 – 26
In short, the angel told them not to look back yet she looked back, and became a pillar of salt.


so why remember Lot's wife??
Looking back will hinder you from coming into your future

So God don't want us to look back at 4 things :

1.) Old Sin which is forgiven

- When God forgive, He really forgets. If God forget, you must forget too!

Isaiah 43: 25

“I—yes, I alone—will blot out your sins for my own sake
and will never think of them again.

²⁵ 惟 有 我 为 自 己 的 缘 故 涂 抹 你 的 过 犯 ； 我 也 不 记 念 你 的 罪 恶 。

2.) Old Defeat

Only the one, who never try, will not taste defeat！

Proverb 24:16

¹⁶ for though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again,

Psalms 37:23-24

The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD, And He delights in his way. {24} Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; For the LORD upholds him with His hand.

even the righteous will fall, yet God is uphold him with His hand!　it is okay to fall or fail, for God is still in control!

3.) Old conflict / argument that make you bitter ( who’s right and who’s wrong)

There is no perfect people, family, friends, or even pastor or church. In a Imperfect world, there is sure hurts through maybe by words or action of other.

so what to do if there are hurts?

Don’t nurse it, don’t curse it, don’t rehearsal it, release it and God will dispose it.

Importantly, don't complain about it! because God dislike complainer

Numbers 11:1

And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp. (KJV).

so what should we do?

Number 11:2
When the people cried out to Moses, he prayed to the LORD and the fire died down. (NIV)

Get back to God!

‎"If you complain, you're going to remain; but if you praise, you'll be raised!"

4.) Past victories

- God is looking at now! What are you doing? Not really the past.

- You might be once a leader, once someone who served God, yet now what are you doing?

- are your victories making you proud ?

Deuteronomy 8:14

then your heart will become proud and you will forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

James 4:6

"God opposes the proud
but gives grace to the humble”

So now , if TODAY is what God is looking at, let us leave our past to God and move forward with Him! :)
jiayou!! :)