Recognizing our toxicity is the first step toward healing it.
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Recognizing Our Toxicity is the First Step in Healing It.
“And the LORD said to Moses, "Make a poisonous serpent, and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten shall look at it and live." Numbers 21:8
It’s a long road, from bondage, to freedom, to wellbeing. It’s easy to get side tracked along the way.
The people of Israel were initially very excited to escape bondage in Egypt. But it was a long difficult uncertain journey to go to a place they had never been and could scarcely imagine.
Along the way they became negative and toxic in their thinking and behavior. That created a toxic environment in which they were being bitten by poisonous snakes
Recognizing the pattern was the step to interrupting the pattern. That’s what looking at the bronze Serpent represents. Changing the pattern led to their healing.
Recognizing our own toxicity is the first step toward healing it.
I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.
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