Lot’s wife looked back, and turned into a pillar of salt. She represents someone who begins to seek, but ‘the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful’ (Matthew 13:22). That is so tragic. One look lost her her life; she became an object of horror. Lot had not even preserved his own wife, and worse was yet to come. Our hankering for the old life can drag the seeking soul back into hell just when it is about to escape. God does not deny us anything that is really for our good.
Even as believers we have to make this our motto text: ‘Look not behind thee.’ If you are tempted to put on the old music, when you have not destroyed it yet, and all that that belongs to sinful culture, remember those words, ‘Look not behind you.’ It is an offence to God for you to wish you could go back, for it is as if you too regret you ever left the world, and you are ungrateful for salvation.