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How to Change Our Toxic Environments

“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

The people of Israel had become tired of the seemingly endless journey from Egypt to their promise land. Many of them said they would have preferred slavery than to where they were. They even complained that they were tired of the food that God was providing them to eat.

Their lack of gratitude, their impatience, their negative attitudes and toxic thinking created a toxic environment for them live in. The environment became so toxic that poisonous snakes were everywhere. Many of them died from the snake bites.

What was the remedy? They set up a pole with one of the poisonous snakes on it. Everyone who looked at it was able to live. In other words their healing process required them to recognize all the ways that they themselves were toxic and negative. Everyone who was willing to look could be healed.

In other words we change our toxic environments by first looking in the mirror and changing the toxic person we see staring back at us.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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