Have you ever wondered why there is a snake on a pole on the back of an ambulance? It always brings me back to a time in history, recorded for us in the Bible in Numbers chapter 21:4-9, where many people were dying. They were being bitten by fiery serpents. God told Moses to make a fiery serpent, and to set it on a pole. Moses did so, making it out of brass. Whoever would look at the serpent on the pole, thus acknowledging their transgression against a holy God, would live and be cured from the punishment of death. Today, we are dying because of our transgressions against a holy God, (Romans 6:23) but there is a cure! Hear the words of Jesus today. “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that WHOEVER believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” (John 3:14-17) Will you look to the Saviour of sinners today and be saved?
