This was a really amazing read for me, but not at first glance. The passage simply goes that the people were whining once more about God and Moses, so God sent judgement upon them and sent a slew of snakes that were poisonous. People started dying, and then they ran to Moses to apologize. Moses prayed, and God told Moses to build a bronze statue of a snake and if someone was bit, they could simply look upon it and be healed. Simple story, right? Well, I thought so too at first glance, but then I realized: God didn't remove the snakes, He just provided a way out of dying from them.
What a great analogy to us today! God sent judgement upon sinners (death, snakes), but then sent Christ to die for our sins (life, the bronze statue). God could have just fixed things with the snap of a finger and removed all sin, but He didn't - He simply provided a way to be healed of it. The people that were bitten were going to die, and all they had to do was look on a bronze statue. They had a choice of looking and living, or not and dying. The same goes for us today. God is not going to make the choice for us, He is going to allow us to do that. We can simply sit back and die from our sin, or we can look upon Jesus and live with Him! It is really amazing that people can know this and still sit back and do nothing. The question is: Are you dying? Or have you looked upon your Savior?
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