Numbers 21
Israel's grumbling and complaining was met with painful consequence. God holds those accountable who refuse to show gratitude. We live in a world where only 1 out of 10 lepers turn around to say, "Thank you." All bitterness is bitterness with God. The chain inevitably always leads back to Him, the Engineer and Author of each and every one of our circumstances. But even in the midst of our suffering at the hands of our own selfishness, He makes a way. He commanded Moses to fashion a bronze serpent to which any who would look could see salvation. Their bodies burned with the poison they invited into their lives, but their healing was at hand with only a glance. No medicine our merit would make up for their misdeeds, but merely gazing by grace through faith at the object on the stick would mend every malady.
John 3:12-16
If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 13 No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
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