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Exodus 4 – Practical Advice About Snakes
When my children were small, I would pick up snakes for them to touch. The whole purpose was to teach them to fight against the natural inclination of fear of snakes (something that apparently didn’t exist in Eden!). Fear can cause us to do the irrational, or even the rational yet dangerous. God told Moses to throw his staff on the ground and it became a snake. Moses, a grown man, ran from it! Remember, this is the same man who killed an Egyptian for mistreating Israelites. So, this must have been some snake! God then tells Moses to pick it up by the tail. That is how you are supposed to pick up snakes because they are not strong enough to turn and bite you. I made the mistake of picking them up for my children right behind the head. Only got bitten once but it was a hog snake. It’s essential to know how to recognize a poisonous snake. Oh, if you think the practical advice is to either run away from snakes or know how to pick them up, you are incorrect. The practical advice is obeying God, even when and especially when, obeying means overcoming our fear.
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