"Snake, big snake!" yelled my oldest son one day last fall as he came bounding though the front door of our house.
Soon
thereafter the serpent lay in edge of the yard with his rather juicy
head buried in the dirt just a few feet beyond. Now, a headless snake is
a dead snake (obviously) but a headless snake still wiggles. This
started me to thinking...
Way back in the book of Genesis,
right after Adam and Eve pulled that fiasco with the forbidden fruit,
God showed up. In response to God's inquest, Adam blamed Eve for his
sin, Eve blamed the serpent and the serpent didn't have a leg to stand
on.
Then, as God delivered his judgments on all of the
participants in mankind's original sin, a curious thing happened. In one
sentence the serpent (Satan) realized the finality of his defeat and
humanity realized their hope of a Deliverer. To the serpent God said,
"And
I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed
and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His
heel." (Genesis 3:15 NKJV).
Now back to my snake,
where this train of thought started. My dead rattler was still wiggling
at least four hours after I shot him. More than once Satan is referred
to in the Bible as the "serpent", and the quote from Genesis is
prophetically referring to Jesus Christ's defeat of Satan at the cross.
Satan is defeated, but he does still wiggle. If you step on his tail you
might get slapped around a little, but that doesn't mean you're
whipped!
If you are a Christian, you have overcome Satan
through the blood of Jesus Christ. Don't forget this! Ultimately the
Christian's victory is assured! As horrible and horrific as the cross
was for Jesus, it was far worse for Satan! Jesus suffering is equated to
a bruised heel as compared to the skull crush delivered to Satan.
Take heart friend, the snake may wiggle still, but he is very much defeated!
"...so
Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly
wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for
salvation." Hebrews 9:28 NKJV
