A Word About Life and Things
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Israel had sinned, again. They complained against
God and Moses. God sent serpents into the camp and
many people were bitten and many died. They went to
Moses and asked him to pray for them. God told Moses
to make a bronze serpent and put it on a high pole
and when any one was bitten they could look up at
that bronze serpent and they would be healed.
Jesus said that as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man must be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. The enemy is always trying to get us down. We have many trials and temptations. We have a bad day, we lose a loved one, we are not treated right on our job. There are many things that come against us. The enemy would like to see us with depression and our heads hanging low. We want to give up. We hate our life. We do not want to go on. Why so cast down, oh my soul? Jesus said to look up. When He died, He not only died for our salvation, but for every need we may have. He died for our salvation, our sickness, our depression, a place we can go to when we don’t feel like going on. He is our reason for living. He has many blessings, He wants to give us. He gives us a future and a hope for tomorrow. He is everything we need in our time of testing and our tribulations. There is nothing that can come against us that God will make it for our good and for our benefit. He is the answer to our every problem. All things work together for our good and for his purpose. Look Up! ––––––––––––––––––––––––– New King James Version Numbers 21:8 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live." 9 So Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived. New King James Version John 3:14 "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 "that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. 16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 "For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. New King James Version Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. New King James Version Psalms 42:11 Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; For I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God. |