Loves Warning!

(Luke 17:32) “Remember Lot's wife.”

Love is a trait full of warning; it must be if it will stand up to the true test. Let us consider an example, if you had knowledge about an event that only you were aware of and it was a certainty, what would you do? Hollywood has often used examples like this to illustrate a pending disaster, the C.I.A finds out that a bomb is about to go off in a certain city and they cannot save those in the city yet one of the agents family lives there. What will he do? He will warn them of the danger and advise them to get out and save themselves. He may not be able to go into the finer details about the bomb because of his pledge of secrecy to the government but as he has a son whom he loves with all his heart and would exchange his life for his without blinking an eyelid, he will warn him and get him to flee the city. Love will come to the rescue! It must if the love is sincere.

(John 3:16) “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.”

Here we see that God knew that He would have to judge sin and therefore demonstrated His love, not with lip service, but by giving sinners an out by sending His only son, God in the flesh, to pay the price for sinners and yet He was without sin. There can be no greater example of love; this proves that God is love! All He requires now from sinners is for them to acknowledge their sin and understand that they are guilty as sinners and that God must judge sin and that the sinner’s sentence will be server, they will all be cast into the Lake of Fire (hell) for all eternity. The only way to escape that destiny is to repent and acknowledge your sin and ask God to forgive you for your sins, you must then understand that only through the Lord Jesus can you find forgiveness. There is no other way, no other god and no other formula one can apply to escape the findings of God. You must also believe that although the Lord died, on the third day he also rose again from the dead and this is why we who were once dead now live in Him. Do not worry too much about any formula that you must apply to find forgiveness, if you honestly fall to your knees and cry out unto the Lord to be saved, He will save you, He will not turn one away, for He is love! Having said that today is the day of salvation, but there will come a day when that offer will no longer be available to sinners, so I beg you to pay earnest attention to the seriousness of your pending decision. My friends, who have not yet bent the knee to the Lord Jesus, Richard, Brett, Trevor, Warren, Mike and Gavin time is still in your favour, but for how much longer, a judgment is coming, please take this decision seriously and do not put it off, act today!

How then do I use a verse like the one above to depict God’s love? Because God is love He will warn us of the potential imminent calamity that is on the horizon. Let us look at Lot’s example; I see a lot of us, my brothers in Christ falling prey to this decoy that the devil lures us with, I also am guilty of Lots mistake, but because we have been warned we must act accordingly, and turn form our error. Wisdom will cause us to act differently!

Lot believed God and acknowledged Him as the only true God, but the mistake He made when Abram asked him what land he wanted to occupy, he made a poor choice, he chose the land of Jordan that was well watered but it would come with a price as the city Sodom was there. The constant pull of sin through the lust of the eyes, and the lust of the flesh would be his wives downfall. This is why Luke tells us to remember Lot’s wife! We must be careful with all of life’s lollypops, they are designed to suck us in to the vortex of sin, be careful as carefulness it the first fruit of repentance. The more we have the more we stand to lose! Be content with what we have and give thanks for were we find ourselves, let us not strive for more, it may be our downfall, “Remember Lots wife.” Love has warned us; let us give it the attention it requires!

Signing off

Tyrone