{"id":1915,"date":"2020-03-14T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shop.honestreflections.net\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2020-03-03T07:53:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T12:53:59","slug":"how-to-neutralize-the-snakes-in-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2020\/03\/14\/how-to-neutralize-the-snakes-in-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW TO NEUTRALIZE THE SNAKES IN YOUR LIFE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cThe people came to Moses and said, \u201cWe sinned when we spoke against the Lord and against you. Pray that the Lord will take the snakes away from us.\u201d So Moses prayed for the people.\u201d  Numbers 21:7 NIV<\/em><\/strong>
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One way to neutralize the snakes in your life  is to ask God to intervene. Today\u2019s verse comes from a passage that is classic Israelites, which is also classic us.  Moses is leading the Israelites to Mt. Hor on a trade route around the Red Sea. The Israelites get impatient, and for the first time, not only complain about Moses, but God.  All other times their gripes were against Moses, this time they are upset with God. God responds to their complaints by sending venomous snakes among them. Of course, now in physical harm, they turn to Moses for help.  Moses immediately goes to God and asks Him to remove the snakes. Here was God\u2019s response:
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\u201c<\/em><\/strong>The Lord said to Moses, \u201cMake a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.\u201d <\/em> <\/em><\/strong>So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.\u201d  <\/em>Numbers 21: 8-9 NIV.<\/em><\/a>
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God didn\u2019t remove the snakes, he neutralized them.<\/strong>
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I have a friend who reminds me, any story we find in the Bible, we can find ourselves in as well.\u00a0 Today\u2019s story is a prime example, we\u2019ve all complained about God at some point or another in our life. He hasn\u2019t handled a situation the way we think He should have handled it. \u00a0 We don\u2019t understand why bad things happen to good people. I know, when I was single, I was frustrated because I felt like I was doing \u201ceverything right,\u201d yet nothing was happening.\u00a0 I waited over 40 years for my husband. I can relate to how the Israelite’s felt wandering in the desert for that long. When we are in the wilderness, our humanness has no problem finding faults with God.
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God sent venomous snakes to answer the Israelites’ complaints.  The venomous snakes are what made them realize they were sinning.  God didn\u2019t send the snakes to be mean, He sent them to get them back on track.  Sometimes, whether we like it or not, He sends venomous snakes into our lives to do the same thing.  Snakes remind us of our sin, our need for God. 
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God is a gentleman, He never pushes Himself upon us, He waits for us to turn to Him. When we do, God neutralizes the snakes in our lives.
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Question of the Day:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What snakes do you need God to neutralize in your life?
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Further Reading:<\/strong> <\/strong>Numbers 21:1-22:20 NIV,<\/a> Luke 1:26-56 NIV<\/a>, Psalm 57:1-11NIV<\/a>, Proverbs 11:9-11 NIV<\/a>
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\u201cThe people came to Moses and said, \u201cWe sinned when we spoke against the Lord and against you. Pray that the Lord will take the snakes away from us.\u201d So Moses prayed for the people.\u201d  Numbers 21:7 NIV One way to neutralize the snakes in your life  is to ask God to intervene. Today\u2019s verse… Continue reading HOW TO NEUTRALIZE THE SNAKES IN YOUR LIFE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1917,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions\/1917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}