If our hearts are glued to the world. By Charles Spurgeon.

Run for your lives. Do not look back and do not stop anywhere on the plain. Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away. But Lot's wife looked back and she became a pillar of salt.

When the time to leave Sodom arrived, Lot's wife could not tear herself away from it. She had always lived in Sodom, and had loved it, and delighted in it. Lot's wife never had any spiritual life, and now, when she is called to leave Sodom, she showed her true character by a deliberate disobedience to God, and risked her all to give a lingering love glance at the doomed city. and so she perishes.

Dreadful doom! On the verge of mercy, to be slain by justice, on the brink of salvation, to be the victim of eternal wrath. This is the subject of our discourse. The love of the world is a soul-damning sin. Those who cling to it must perish, be they who they may.

To be separated from the ungodly world, its trifles, its maxims, its motives, its aims, is the mark of a true disciple of Jesus. So our Lord implores us to remember Lot's wife. She is to be a caution to us all, for God will deal with us, as he did with her, if we share her character.

If our hearts are glued to the world, then we shall perish with the world, If our desires and delights look that way, and if we find our comfort in it, then we ourselves will be consumed with it in the day of judgment. Separation is the only way of escape. We must either flee from the ungodly world, or perish with it.

I fear that the number of true Christians is very much less than most suppose. We are surrounded by a host of people who call themselves Christians, but are as much of the world as other people, whose pleasure is in the world, whose speech is worldly, and who are all together of the world.

Remember Lot's wife. Whoever tries to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.