Healing / NKJV 365

Healing

I do not like snakes! I cringe in horror just thinking about a multitude of snakes writhing throughout the Israelite camp. Why was this happening?

These serpents were sent by God to chastise His ungrateful, angry children for their lack of trust in Him. Life was just not being lived on their terms.

Enter the snakes — God’s judgment for their sin. Judgment, though, that was tempered by love and mercy and alert to cries for help. As the people repented, God provided deliverance in the form of a bronze snake set on a pole. All that was needed to live was to look at the serpent in faith.

Does this passage of scripture have a ring of familiarity to it? Jesus refers to this incident while talking to Nicodemus in John 3:14, 15. He explains that just as the serpent was lifted up, so the Son of Man will be lifted up, and whoever believes in Him will not perish.

The good news about snakes? The old Serpent, the devil, and all his fiery messengers were defeated at the Cross.

Cynthia Heald

Taken from Women of Faith Devotional Bible

“Then the people of Israel set out from Mount Hor, taking the road to the Red Sea to go around the land of Edom. But the people grew impatient with the long journey, and they began to speak against God and Moses. “Why have you brought us out of Egypt to die here in the wilderness?” they complained. “There is nothing to eat here and nothing to drink. And we hate this horrible manna!” So the Lord sent poisonous snakes among the people, and many were bitten and died. Then the people came to Moses and cried out, “We have sinned by speaking against the Lord and against you. Pray that the Lord will take away the snakes.” So Moses prayed for the people. Then the Lord told him, “Make a replica of a poisonous snake and attach it to a pole. All who are bitten will live if they simply look at it!” So Moses made a snake out of bronze and attached it to a pole. Then anyone who was bitten by a snake could look at the bronze snake and be healed!”

‭‭Numbers‬ ‭21:4-9‬ ‭NLT‬‬