“Wise as serpents”

In Matthew 10:16 Jesus is commissioning His Disciples when he commands them to be “wise as serpents and harmless as doves”.  As Jesus is our perfect example – how exactly was He wise as a serpent?

1. Jesus was careful in His responses.  He was never caught in a trap though the Pharisees often tried to do just that.  He would always turn around His response and put them on the defensive.  We will never be able to match the divine wisdom of Jesus Christ, but we can be very careful in how we respond to others.
2. Jesus knew the difference between a sincere question and trick question.  He knew that Nicodemus was sincere when he met Christ at night to get answers that he was struggling with.  Christ also knew that often His critics would try to trip Him up with misleading situations and questions.
3. Jesus remained calm in difficult circumstances but was also able to get angry at sin when it was warranted.  Jesus slept in a storm tossed ship.  He was silent when ridiculed and mistreated during His trial.  But He was also the one that overturned the table of the money changers in the temple.  Jesus was the epitome of knowing time and place.

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4. I heard a pastor say once that Jesus knew how to “weed and feed”  Within one lesson Jesus could weed out the lost and sin and simultaneously feed the hungry soul.

We so often think negatively about serpents in the Scriptures and rightfully so – but in this particular passage they are used in a positive light and while this passage warns us that we are sent as sheep among wolves we are advised to be WISE.