“Once a natural force has been unleashed, special merit is needed to remove it or protect against it, even if the sin that caused it has been forgiven” (commentary from Parashas Chukas)
When you look upward and subject your heart toward the Father in Heaven you shall be healed! (The Jews in the wilderness learned this valuable lesson when they had been dying from the serpents “fiery serpents” had been biting them.) God could had just healed them but He gave them a copper serpent on a staff that Moses made to look unto and be healed. It is said that God could have healed them without the serpent but then they would have thought they were cured through natural means!
This is the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life” John 3:16
You see just as God had Moses put the serpent on the staff and raise him up to be looked upon, God put His Son on the cross to be looked upon so that men would be healed. It is this place where it all will start for you, the new birth (being born again a new) in your belief in the Only One who can save you. It is for this reason and this alone that God will show you it is not for your works that He will save you but by His grace. (Ephesians 2:8) so you shall not boast but remain humble turning your life over to Him to serve Him and His kingdom. (Our Father who are in heaven, Hallowed be Your name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done…”) Gods will is that non shall perish but all come to repentance.
“The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
11 Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,
12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? “ 2 Peter 3:9-12
Recent Comments