Look to God and Live

One Minute Scripture Study: A Come Follow Me Podcast

Kristen Smith

Lds, Mormon, Come Follow Me, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Let’s look at one of my favorite symbols of Christ as we prepare to study the Old Testament this year! Open up to Numbers 21:8.

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0:00.0	Welcome to One Minute Scripter Study, a Come Follow Me podcast.
0:05.0	We are your host, Kristen Walker-Smith and Callie Black.
0:09.2	Hey, it's Callie Black here with today's thought. Let's open up to Numbers, Chapter 21, verse 8.
0:16.0	The Israelites had been wandering for a long time, but they had seen some amazing miracles. The Lord had
0:24.2	just saved them from an attack from their enemies. However, immediately after being saved,
0:31.0	the Israelites started to complain. All of this wandering was taking so long. There wasn't any good food to eat. God was going to let them die in the wilderness.
0:43.7	In response to their ingratitude, selfishness, and pride, the Lord sent a plague of fiery serpents to the Israelites, killing many of them. They pleaded with their prophet Moses
0:58.5	to find a way to get rid of the plague. And in Numbers chapter 21, verse 8, we read, and the Lord said unto Moses,
1:06.2	make thee a fiery serpent and set it upon a pale, and it shall come to pass that everyone that is
1:13.6	bitten when he looketh upon it shall live. The Israelites learned that the solution to their
1:22.5	bitterness and ingratitude was to look to a serpent made of brass.
1:29.5	Just like the Israelites and their brass serpent,
1:32.1	we too can find a simple solution to our sins of ingratitude,
1:39.1	impatience, and pridefulness.
1:42.1	We need to look to Jesus. Even when we are tempted to murmur and complain about
1:49.4	all the ways we think he has left us and life is miserable, the answer truly is to simply
1:59.6	turn toward Jesus and let him take away the sting of our problems.
2:06.3	So the takeaway of the day, in five words or less, Jesus cures ingratitude.
2:13.6	Thanks for being here today and for coming closer to Christ with me one minute at a time.
2:19.2	Friend, if you love this podcast, you are going to love this.
2:22.8	For the very first time, our one-minute scripture study book is going to include dates.
2:28.3	Yes, for 2026 as we dive into the Old Testament, every day is dated and and it is spiral bound. It's going to be
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