Psalm 30:5 says this:
5 For His anger is but for a moment, but His favor is for a lifetime or in His favor is life. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.
I have always loved this verse. No matter what tests, trials and tribulations we encounter, whether of our own making or an attack from the enemy, He will ALWAYS provide a way to victory! A new day! I LOVE the mornings! I have a picture here of a morning in Maui, my favorite!
Now doesn't THAT look like a beautiful morning and a great NEW DAY! AMEN!
In Genesis 19:24-26 we see that what God had said would happen to Sodom and Gomorrah took place AFTER Lot was removed!
24 Then the Lord rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of the heavens. 25 He overthrew, destroyed, and ended those cities, and all the valley and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. 26 But [Lot's] wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
Even though she was given direct warning, Lot's wife looked back, probably in longing for her old life, and was turned to salt. There are many pictures of what people THINK may be the pillar of salt, but this picture, taken from Masada during our trip to Israel, is of the Dead Sea that resulted form this judgment on theses cities.
Can you imagine this area green and fertile like Lot saw it when he chose this choice land for his own? It is very hard to do that when you see miles and miles of sand and the Dead or Salt Sea! But, as with everything else in the Word of God, it's true!
It really does pay to do things God's WAY!
