Cast About Your Eyes
In this week’s Come, Follow Me reading we find the story of the brass serpent that Moses lifted up in the wilderness. After the people complained and spoke against God, the Lord “sent fiery serpents” among them. When they started to repent, the Lord provided a way for their escape: “And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived” (Numbers 21:5-9). Dr. David Thomson in a recent podcast commented on the word beheld in this verse: “The meaning in that word is not just to glance at, but it means or implies to look with intense focus or intent. That gives you an entirely different feel than just glancing at this brass serpent and being healed, that you’re focusing on it, that you are really paying at...