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would take the serpents a<strong>way</strong>. May I show you how<br />

God responded <strong>to</strong> the cry of the children of Israel?<br />

Then the LORD said <strong>to</strong> Moses, “Make a fiery<br />

serpent, <strong>and</strong> set it on a pole; <strong>and</strong> it shall be<br />

that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at<br />

it, shall live.” (Num. 21:8)<br />

God’s response wasn’t <strong>to</strong> take a<strong>way</strong> the serpents.<br />

His response was <strong>to</strong> instruct Moses <strong>to</strong> make a replica<br />

of the very thing that was killing them—the serpent<br />

—<strong>and</strong> <strong>to</strong> set it on a pole for all <strong>to</strong> look at. The Bible<br />

goes on <strong>to</strong> tell us what happened next:<br />

So Moses made a bronze serpent, <strong>and</strong> put it<br />

on a pole; <strong>and</strong> so it was, if a serpent had<br />

bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze<br />

serpent, he lived. (Num. 21:9)<br />

The waves of nausea that immobilize you are<br />

real. The cramps that seize <strong>your</strong> body are real. The<br />

shortness of br<strong>eat</strong>h you have been struggling with is<br />

real. The pain that slices through <strong>your</strong> head with<br />

every move is real, just as the painful bites from the<br />

fiery serpents were real for the children of Israel.<br />

Right now, I pray that every pain <strong>and</strong> every

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