You Can’t Move Forwards Looking Backwards

Proverbs 29:1 says "He that often being rebuked or corrected hardens or stiffens his neck shall suddenly be destroyed without remedy or healing." God calls an arrogant, obstinate person who refuses correction and direction "stiff necked" . Like a steady drip of water that is not fixed but allowed to continue dripping, the damage will eventually be very serious. Are we holding on to a past hurt refusing to let it go? Are we refusing to forgive someone ? Are we trying to walk forwards with our head looking backwards? If so, we simply cannot move forwards. The Hebrew word for neck "oraph" can also mean "apostacy", or "abandoning our directive" . The Hebrew word for stiff is "qashah" meaning "stubborness" or to be "obstinate" . Are we being hard or stiff necked towards the prompting and instruction of The Holy Spirit in any way? We must fix that drip, drip, drip immediately. Remember Lot's wife who in the midst of GOD's angelic deliverance from fire and brimstone, obstinately disobeyed GOD's warning and command, and looked back to Sodom.....and there she stayed as a pillar of salt.... because her heart had remained there.