So we tell Moses, 'we sinned when we spoke against the Lord and against you; pray that the Lord will take the snakes away from us.' Moses prays for us...then the Lord says, 'make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live'. Then, truly, when anyone among us was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived! (narrative coined from Numbers 21:4-9)

Why would God give us a snake as the solution when we asked Him to take snakes from our camp? God's methods and solutions may look out of the world and may not make sense to our finite minds sometimes, but that's part of His sovereignty. God uses the foolish things of the world to confound the wise.

The message of salvation sounds too good to be true to some. "Really?", some ask. "All we need to do is believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as our Saviour and in His finished work on the Cross?", some question. Yes! Salvation is full and free in Christ alone! "But there's no free lunch", others say. "There certainly must be something we need to do or pay right?" Well, there's a price but only the spotless Lamb of God was worthy enough to pay that price. Jesus paid it all...all to Him we owe. Just as the snake was lifted up in the wilderness, so the Son of Man was lifted up on Calvary for us. Look to Jesus now, and LIVE!