There is no turning back 

“But if anyone draws back, My soul has no pleasure in him.” Hebrews 10:38 NKJV 

A little boy in Sunday school heard the story of how Lot’s wife looked back toward Sodom and turned into a pillar of salt (see Genesis 19:26). “That’s nothing,” he said. “Last week when my mother was driving down the street, she looked back—and turned into a telephone pole!” Seriously, God says, “If anyone draws back, My soul has no pleasure in him.” Every pilot knows there is a point of no return. The runway has all been used up; it’s fly or die! In Hebrews chapter eleven, we find a list of ordinary people who in the worst of times refused to turn back. The Bible says, “If they had longed for the country they came from, they could have gone back. But they were looking for a better place, a heavenly homeland. That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them” (Hebrews 11:15-16 NLT). Here’s the score: if you’re beginning your walk with God, Satan will use every trick in the book to get you off track. If you’re in the middle of your walk with God, he will try to tell you that your life doesn’t count. Don’t believe him; he’s a liar! And if you’re nearing the end of your walk with God, he will try to discourage you by highlighting all your faults and failures. Don’t buy what he’s selling! Instead, stand on this scripture: “I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day” (2 Timothy 1:12 NKJV).

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