When he looked to the bronze serpent, he lived.

Numbers 21:4-9, Then they set out from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the people became impatient because of the journey. And the people spoke against God and Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this miserable food.” And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. So the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and you; intercede with the Lord, that He may remove the serpents from us.” And Moses interceded for the people. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard; and it shall come about, that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, he shall live.” And Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on the standard; and it came about, that if a serpent bit any man, when he looked to the bronze serpent, he lived.

Once again the complaints arise and Moses mercifully intercedes to the Lord to save them from the bite of fiery serpents. Again the Lord uses something that makes no earthly sense to bring healing from this scourge, a bronze serpent to be lifted up so that those who were struck might look at it and live. Only later does Jesus make sense of this when He says “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up; that whoever believes may in Him have eternal life.” In the eyes of men this is foolishness; to those who are saved it is the wisdom of God. We must look unto Him who was lifted up on the cross that we may be saved!

Thank You that Your foolishness is wiser than the wisdom of men; open our eyes to Your grace, mercy and wisdom which is our power to be saved.