Lot's Wife

"It isn't just that she looked back — she looked back longingly. In short, her attachment to the past outweighed her confidence in the future," he said. "That, apparently, was at least part of her sin."

"We remember that faith is always pointed toward the future — faith always has to do with blessing and truths and events that will yet be efficacious in our lives," he said. "So a more theological way to talk about Lot's wife is to say she did not have faith. She doubted the Lord's ability to give her something better than she had. Apparently, she thought — fatally as it turned out — that nothing that lay ahead could possibly be as good as those moments she was leaving behind."

Elder Jeffery R. Holland, BYU Devotional, January 13, 2009