Jeffrey Steel: Remember Lot’s Wife
This is the eighth in a series of daily Lenten devotionals by a group of Anglican bloggers and friends. Today’s entry is by Jeffrey Steel of the Meam Commemorationem blog. You can read other entries in the series here.

Excerpt: "This idea for my devotional for the ‘Collaborative Lenten Blogging Effort’ is taken from a sermon preached during Lent by Bishop Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626). It was preached at Hampton Court, the sixth of March, 1594, before Queen Elizabeth I. The call is for the virtue of perseverance in grace. We live in dangerous days and the danger we face is our falling away. There is much decline of truth, as well as hope, to the extent that we frequently become overwhelmed and feel directionless. It has the potential of causing us to question or doubt what we have been called to as Christians. The pressures of this world upon the Church corporately, and each of us individually, often seems to be more than we can bear. What has often happened is that we move the goalposts of faith around to such an extent that it makes one wonder if he or she is still playing on the original pitch and in the original game. Do we go forward to Zoar or back again to Sodom? This ‘directionlessness’ is proof that Lot’s wife has been forgotten. The scriptures are replete with stories of remembering. Remembering is an important part of our Christian journey."

The rest at Lent and Beyond