While most of us are familiar with the story of Lot's wife, are we all sufficiently aware of its vital significance? Do we accept the lesson that it teaches and heed it in our daily living?
Christ Jesus constantly reminded his disciples of the different events that are recorded in Scriptural history, quoting again and again from the Old Testament in his sermons and conversations. He well knew the lessons that were to be learned from these experiences, the spiritual awakening that would take place because of them, and he knew mankind's need of those lessons and that awakening. Whatever the master Christian held of importance for his disciples must also be most essential to those today who, as Christian Scientists, have enlisted to obey not part of his teachings but to take him wholly as their model in word and deed. The lessons from the Old Testament that he especially emphasized are of the greatest value to his disciples of the twentieth century.
When Lot chose the rich and fertile pastures near the city of Sodom and made his abode there, he was soon to regret his choice because of its degenerate inhabitants. While Lot had to go through many unhappy, even dangerous experiences, his righteousness was his protection. Divinely guided, he and his family were led to escape this place of wickedness, while immediately after their departure the city with all its rich plains and all its inhabitants was destroyed.
