In the book of Numbers, Chapter 21 verses 4 to 8, the Israelites become very impatient as they travel from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea in order for them to go around Edom. They grumbled again against God and Moses, but because of this, God sent some venomous snakes. These snakes killed many of the Israelites. Now, the Israelites who survived came to Moses and asked him to pray to God to take the snakes away from them. Moses did pray to the Lord, and in answer, the Lord commanded him to make a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. The Lord said that anyone who looks at this bronze snake will live.
This event in the book of Numbers speaks so much in our lives. The grumbling of the Israelites, the snakes that killed many of the Israelites, and the bronze snake symbolizes things that are already existing in a human life. Now let’s look at them one by one:
- The grumbling of the Israelites
-The grumbling of the Israelites happened a lot of times in many events at the time of Moses. This grumbling symbolizes nothing else, but also grumbling in our lives. As you can see, the Israelites grumbled because they become very impatient. Well, the same goes for us, we became impatient a lot of times in our lives and it causes us to grumble.
- The snakes that killed many of the Israelites
-As the result of grumbling, God sent snakes that killed many of the Israelites. These snakes symbolizes the hardship we get when we become impatient and grumbled. The more we grumble in our hardships, the harder it is for us to overcome! It is not really the sufferings that can kill a man, it is his grumbling in these sufferings. Our grumbling in our sufferings are poisons that can kill us slowly.
- The bronze snake
-But still, though the Israelites grumbled against God, God still provided a way for them to be healed, and that is through the bronze snake. Now, this bronze snake symbolizes Jesus. When we are poisoned by hardships in our lives, instead of grumbling, all we have to do is to look unto Jesus. We must not think about what we should do to overcome these troubles, we must look at what Jesus has already done for us on the cross! He is the only way for us to be saturated even in the hardest time of our lives. Jesus has already done everything, all we have to do is look unto Him and put our trust into Him. Only in this way can we overcome the hardships in our lives.
Life will offer us lots of troubles that will cause us to grumble. Yes, we would be facing a lot of them along the way. But when the time comes where we are being pressed to our limit, we must never forget to look unto Jesus. Jesus is our only way out.
Good day and God bless.
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