Remember Lots Wife!

Jesus surely came to seek and to save that which was lost. He bids us to remember Lot's wife in scripture, who turned back and was consumed into a pillar of salt. The mercy of our Lord Jesus who saves to the uttermost is highlighted by his remembrance of this silent subject of scripture. Jesus remembers the forgotten and unloved woman. Jesus remembers the forlorn and uncared for woman. Jesus cares and tends the smoking flax. Who would not have questioned the integrity of a man of God, who would send her children out to the mob and save strangers, whether they be angels or not. Jesus came to unravel the complicated heart of woman and meet the needs that men cannot see or experience. He who met the woman at the well, is the same God who is not like Lot, nor like the angel, who could only speak the word and grab the hand. The angel had not the power to change the heart of unbelief. Jesus has the power to remove the heart of stone and make it a heart of flesh. The disenchanted heart and the heart made hard from watching the people who claim to represent God hurt them in their callousness or in their forgetting. Jesus ready stands to save and to heal. Lots wife and Hagar saw themselves outside of the realm of redemption. God takes the opportunity to make Himself the stronger than the strong man in the New Testament. He ready stands to save us, full of mercy, joined with power. Remember that when "all men stand as liars", God alone is true. We don't come to an Angel or to a good or even great man, we come to the compassionate and faithful High priest of our souls, Jesus Christ, the righteous. Grant us grace to see Christ above, even the godliest of men. Amen.