"Remembering Lot's Wife"

One of the shortest verses found in the canonized word is spoken by Christ when he stated "remember Lot's wife". Elder Jeffery R Holland gave an amazing discourse on what this meant last January at BYU. I hope that he will not be too offended by borrowing some of his ideas about what it means to remember Lot's wife. We have just started a new year, and we all have made some kind of resolution to complete something that will only last till monday. I would like to suggest something that we can learn from Lot's wife on what we should do everyday, but maybe it is something that we should take a extra effort to do around this time of self-assessment, accountability and hopes of a brighter, skinner, tomorrow. It seems to me that Lot's wife's sin wasn't necessarily that she looked back to those sin filled cities of Sodom and Gomorra, but that she longed to go back there. She didn't think anything could be better than living it up in those cities. She didn't feel that the Lord had anything better for her in tomorrows of her life, but all the good times were found in yesterday. She felt that yesterday held such a brighter future for her than did tomorrow. In other words, she lacked the faith to believe that tomorrow could be better than yesterday. How often do we foolishly look back to yesteryears and think how much better life was back then, with its security of knowing how things have turned out? How often do we look to our own personal undiscovered countries (the future) and paralyze ourselves with anxiety of the unknown? How often do run with fear from the very things that will bring the greatest happiness? Let us all resolve in our hearts this day, that we will fuel our hearts with the faith of a brighter, happier tomorrow. Let us establish forever in the battlefields of our souls that hope will triumph over the agonizing fears of what could had been. Let us press forward and always remember that "(our) God doth undertake, to guide the future as He has the past." ("Be Still, My Soul")