I'll Pass On The Salt, Please


There are times in my life that I read and see parts of the stories in the bible in a humorous way not mocking by any means. I fear God to much to do that! The story I’m about to talk about is found in Genesis 19.
Lot ended up with one salty wife, probably couldn’t peck her for fear of losing his lips. Lots wife turned into a pillar of salt for her disobedience but Matthew 5:13 states that, “Ye are the salt of the earth”. Why she didn’t turn into a pillar of sugar??? Brown sugar??? Her husband might have had to resort to one last salty/bitter peck of his disobedient wife. Matthew also states but, “if the salt have lost his savour we are good for nothing”…I guess Mrs. Lot lost her savour and became one bitter pillar. God ways are so beyond us; we can’t comprehend the reasoning of the pillar of salt.



 On a more serious note, I personally think her disobedience stemmed from Lot. As the angels entered the city and later Lots house, they kept insisting that he and his family leave the city. Yet in verse 16 Lot lingered he still didn’t want to leave the evil city or heed to the warning of the Angels. They literally place them outside the city and were instructed to escape for their lives and not look back. Just maybe she looked back because she had daughters (maybe even grandchildren) still in the city but reminds me of some of us that came out of the world of sin. Sometimes we look back at where we came from it should be ruins we see there NOT anything good that would draws us back to Sodom or Gomorrah.

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  1. Actually I heard a preaching one time where this Sis was preaching about Lots wife and why she turned around that awful day. She said that she had been praying and that she was burdened by the family that was left behind. As a mother her heart was broken and therefore she looked back.

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  2. This Sis was praying and the Lord revealed to her that the reason she turned around was not because she was rebellious but she was burdened by her loved ones left behind. Therefore turned around.

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  3. Actually I heard a preaching one time where this Sis was preaching about Lots wife and why she turned around that awful day. She said that she had been praying and that she was burdened by the family that was left behind. As a mother her heart was broken and therefore she looked back.

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  4. Sofie something to compare about Lots wife story is the Spanish scripture to the English scripture. In Spanish it seems like she left children behind but in the English version theres no mention of anyone being left behind. I have reread it many times but I come up with the same conclusion.

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