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The Ultimate Healer Today's Devotional Read: Numbers 21:4–9; 2 Kings 18:4–7 Bible in a Year: Psalms 0–2; 1 Corinthians 9 [Hezekiah] broke into pieces the bronze snake Moses had made. 2 Kings 18:4 When a medical treatment began to provide relief for a family member’s severe food allergies, I became so excited that I talked about it all the time. I described the intense process and extolled the doctor who had created the program. Finally, some friends commented, “We think God should always get the credit for healing.” Their statement made me pause. Had I taken my eyes off the Ultimate Healer and made the healing into an idol? The nation of Israel fell into a similar trap when they began to burn incense to a bronze snake which God had used to heal them. They’d been performing this act of worship until Hezekiah identified it as idolatry and “broke into pieces the bronze snake Moses had made” (2 Kings 18:4). Several centuries earlier, a group of venomous snakes had invaded the Israelite camp. The snakes bit the people and many died (Numbers 21:6). Although spiritual rebellion had caused the problem, the people cried out to God for help. Showing mercy, He directed Moses to sculpt a bronze snake, fasten it to a pole, and hold it up for everyone to see. When the people looked at it, they were healed (vv. 4–9). Think of God’s gifts to you. Have any of them become objects of praise instead of evidence of His mercy and grace? Only our holy God—the source of every good gift (James 1:8—is worthy of worship. How has God shown you His goodness through other people? Why is it so easy give people credit for what God has done in your life? Dear God, I worship You as the -powerful God who hears my prayers. Thank You for sustaining my life and caring for . 
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It's easy to look at the people that God uses to bless our lives, because they are real and touchable. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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