My big sister wants to talk to me again.
I first stopped talking to my sister over 2 years ago now. To be fair, the movement had originally started with her -- she suddenly and without warning went MIA.
When I confronted her about her absence, I received back, "Oh, yeah! -- I guess I just didn't like being around you smoking weed."
Despite the fact I hardly ever smoked in front of her, and the last time I had was a year, if not YEARS ago.
(And I'm not even going to begin to defend weed -- this God-given medicine has saved my life on 4 separate occasions while fighting a deliberating condition.)
This is the same sister who abandoned me, while I was 3,000km away from home and being physically ab🥴ed by my ex, because I "didn't take her advice" of just "simply" leaving and driving home by myself.
So, I thought, that's enough, and Blocked her on everything. She has since moved to the UK and is engaged to her fiance.
That was 2 years ago.
Today, my dad messages me to let me know that my sister wants to talk to me again.
And, without hesitation, I told him no thank you. Here's why...
God tells us NOT TO LOOK BACK. He made an example of Lot's wife when she looked back at Sodom by turning her to salt; salt symbolizes preservation, which is what she desired to do with her old life when she looked back.
Jesus reiterates this lesson in the New Testament:
"On that day [Judgement Day] no one who is on the housetop, with possessions inside, should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should go back for anything. Remember Lot’s wife! Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it." (Luke 17:31-33)
And again in Luke:
"Jesus replied, 'No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.'" (Luke 9:62)
God tells us not to look back because the past can tarnish the future. When we think of the past, we often do so negatively: with regret, shame, anger, unsatisfaction -- even the happy moments we recall sorrowfully, knowing we can never go back. We waste so much of our lives being stuck in a time that has long since passed, that already existed, over the future that calls us to actively focus upon it.
God tells us not to look back because He has SAVED us from those situations, from those people, for a reason -- and you can guarantee that reason is for YOUR BETTERMENT. We sacrifice the vices, habits, environments, and bad influences for the sake of a better us, a better tomorrow.
I realize this -- I have ALREADY realized this awhile ago. I have already established contact with those who never repented for their prior sins against me first, and it simply does not work.
I do not want it to. God has already removed several people/stumbling blocks from my life since I started walking on His path. No regrets. I pray that He continues to remove anyone else who is a hindrance to my progress.
"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law -- a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household." (Matthew 10:34-36)
