Don't Look Back!

One of the more interesting transgressions laid out for us in the Bible is the sin of “looking back”!  Lot’s wife looked back longingly at Sodom and was turned into a life-size salt shaker.  The Israelites were constantly looking back to Egypt (a land of oppression and slavery, no less!) on their way to the promised land.  Jesus tells us that once we put our proverbial hand to the plow (following Him), whatever we do, “Don’t look back!”  

The celebration of baptism is the celebration of lives who have drawn a line in the sand and said, “I am at the point of no return.  I am headed towards living for Christ.  I am not turning or looking back!!”  But, whether it is yearning for the past or harboring guilt that has been erased by the cross; whether it is nursing wounds that we will not let heal or regretting how things could have been, we are called to a life that stops looking back, draws that line in the sand and presses on towards a life more and more dedicated to Jesus Christ.