{"id":1019,"date":"2017-06-09T10:11:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T15:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2018-06-09T11:59:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T16:59:53","slug":"run-for-your-life-and-do-not-look-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/09\/run-for-your-life-and-do-not-look-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Run for Your Life, and Do Not Look Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many times we start out in life, young and carefree; we have lots of dreams and ambitions\u2026<\/h6>\n
Somewhere along the line we fall into a pit. We make wrong choices and before we know it we are caught in a web. Lies and corruption entangle our hearts and\u00a0minds and evil’s bony, sharp, talons dig deep within us.<\/h6>\n
The spider weaves its web around us knowing we can never be free. The more we struggle the tighter the web becomes. The spider lurks, waiting to make his move. Its victims, unaware\u00a0that the angel of death is coming for them.<\/h6>\n
Let me tell you a little story. It\u2019s about Lot, the nephew of Abraham. Lot chose to leave the protection of Abraham and\u00a0move away from\u00a0the mountains\u00a0to be\u00a0closer to the city of Sodom and Gomorrah.<\/h6>\n
He wanted a different life. He wanted the city life. Although he still kept his religious beliefs. Maybe he thought that sin would not taint him or his family. That he could live that close to evil and it wouldn\u2019t rub off on them. Where did the angels find Lot when they arrived? He was at the city gate. The city gate was a place of authority where all the important men gathered. He was important, or so he thought. (Read Genesis 19)<\/h6>\n
Let me back up for just a moment\u2026<\/h6>\n
The Lord and two angels, appearing as men,\u00a0were walking by\u00a0Abraham’s camp when he\u00a0saw them; Abraham knew immediately who they were. Bowing before them he invited them to eat and to offer them\u00a0refreshments. Afterwards, the Lord stayed behind with Abraham.\u00a0The two angels continued on their way.<\/h6>\n
The Lord told Abraham that Sodom and Gomorrah was going to be destroyed because of the great sins that were going on there. Abraham beseeched the Lord and said, \u201cWill you destroy the righteous with the wicked?\u201d Abraham interceded for the people.\u00a0He asked, \u201cWhat if there are fifty righteous living there, would you spare their lives and not destroy the cities? The Lord said he would not destroy them if he found fifty. Abraham must have known that there probably was not that many righteous living there so he counted down with, what about forty, and the Lord said, if forty, he wouldn\u2019t destroy it\u2026Abraham didn\u2019t stop with forty, what if there are only thirty, twenty, he counted all the way to ten. Abraham said, \u201cWhat if there are ten righteous?\u201d The Lord said he would not destroy them if he found ten righteous\u2026<\/h6>\n
But\u2026he didn\u2019t find ten righteous; in fact he found that the place was so corrupt that the men of the city wanted to seduce the angels\u2026 but the angels caused all\u00a0the men to become blind\u2026(Genesis 18:23-32)<\/h6>\n
God\u2019s judgement is righteous and true. He blinds those who try to harm God\u2019s own.<\/h6>\n
Lot, took the angels into his home and tried to protect them. Read (Genesis 19) The angels told Lot to take his family and get out of Sodom it was going to be destroyed. Lot\u2019s sons-in-law thought it was a joke. It was no joke.<\/h6>\n
With urgency the angels told Lot you must leave now for these cities will be destroyed tonight.<\/h6>\n
The angels remembered Abraham\u2019s plea for the righteous, and so they took Lot by the hand and his wife and two daughters and led them out of the city to a\u00a0place called Zoar (which means little place), and told them to get to the mountains. To run for their lives and \u201cDO NOT LOOK BACK!\u201d<\/h6>\n
You can read the account in Genesis 19\u2026<\/h6>\n
How many times do we look back over our past and wish\u2026?<\/h6>\n
How many regrets are staring back at us as we look back?<\/h6>\n
God has said, \u201cDo Not Look Back!\u201d<\/h6>\n
Lot\u2019s wife looked back and died. She no doubt, had family and friends in those cities. She grew up in the place and probably didn\u2019t even consider what they did as wrong. They called good, evil, and evil, good, they did every evil thing that entered their minds. Sodom and Gomorrah was so vile and putrid that God took notice and destroyed it with fire and brimstone.<\/h6>\n
Abraham prayed\u2026if not for the pleading of Abraham to the Lord\u2026even Lot and his daughter\u2019s would have perished.<\/h6>\n
Sin blinds\u2026sin corrupts\u2026sin brings death and destruction\u2026but the prayers of a righteous man or woman, God will hear and answer.<\/h6>\n
Pray for marriages\u2026pray for young people\u2026pray for children and for our Nations and lands\u2026God sees everything and he does not turn a deaf ear to the cries of the righteous. He does not wink at the acts of rebellion and corruption he sees and hears all the evil\u00a0that rages. Don\u2019t think for one second that God is not aware of what’s going on,\u00a0for he sees and he cries right along with us\u2026He will send judgement. \u201cVengeance is mine,\u201d says the Lord!<\/h6>\n
Pray, people of the Living God. Intercede, for God hears and he will answer.<\/h6>\n
Respect each other. Even if you don\u2019t like someone, you still have to love them, that is, if you call yourself a child of God for God is Love!<\/h6>\n
Don\u2019t look back at the sins of the past\u2026not even for a second\u2026 it will destroy you\u2026<\/h6>\n
But run to the safe haven which is in the arms of Jesus your savior\u2026the place of safety and rest. Run even if it is a little place, for there you will be delivered.<\/h6>\n
The past can never be changed because the past is gone.<\/h6>\n
God doesn\u2019t say he has plans to give you a past. He says, he has a plan to give you a hope and a future\u2026<\/h6>\n
His plan came through the blood of His Son Jesus, which means Savior. And it is for all who will accept Him as Lord and Savior of their lives.<\/h6>\n
What are we saved from\u2026? We are saved from death and destruction. We are rescued from evil. To live holy set apart lives not to see how close we can get to evil and it not affect us\u2026but to live as far away from evil as we can possible get\u2026even if it\u00a0means to the mountains\u2026the place where God dwells\u2026spiritually speaking.<\/h6>\n
The Angel of the Lord is saying to you today, \u201cRun for your lives and Do Not Look Back!<\/h6>\n
~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill \u2013 June 9, 2017<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many times we start out in life, young and carefree; we have lots of dreams and ambitions\u2026 Somewhere along the line we fall into a pit. We make wrong choices and before we know it we are caught in a web. Lies and corruption entangle our hearts and\u00a0minds and evil’s bony, sharp, talons dig deep…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8aPxH-gr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2572,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions\/2572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}