Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Numbers 21

The Israelites complain again... and God is mean again.

This time God sends poisonous snakes to bite them. Many are bitten and die. God tells Moses to put a bronze snake on a pole and have the bitten people look at the pole. By looking at the pole the Israelites were healed.

God creates an emergency for the Israelites, so that they can change their way of thinking... to make them trust in God.

The truth is that death comes for everyone, whether it be from a snake bite when we are 30 or from a disease at 85. No matter where we are in life though, we should always trust in God... but we don't. We have doubts, we try to take control and we reserve God for an hour on Sunday mornings.

In our moments of need we don't look to a bronze snake on a pole, we look to a bleeding man on a cross. For it is through the cross that we are healed, maybe not in body but in spirit.

Which is convenient, because it is the spirit that lives on forever.

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