Some teaching makes believers darkness-conscious.
Obsessed with the enemy.
Anxious about the end times.
Preoccupied with what the devil is doing.

When Israel was bitten by serpents in the wilderness,
God didn’t tell them to study the bite.
He told them to look at the bronze serpent lifted high.

“And so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.”
Numbers 21:9

The Hebrew word for “look” is (nabat) נָבַט — “to gaze intently.”

Not a glance.
A steady look.

Fear grows when you stare at the wound.
Faith grows when you stare at the cross.

The serpent’s bite was real.
But the cure was found somewhere else.

Your struggle is real.
Your pain is real.
But life comes from fixing your eyes on Jesus,
not on your enemy.

What you look at longest becomes the loudest.