I’m not going to cover everything
that breaks the heart of God. I’m just going to cover maybe 2 or 3 things. This
first one is really going to be something serious, so get ready to take offense
(ha ha).
When Moses didn't come down from the
mountain on the children of Israel's
timetable, they got Aaron to make a golden calf & they worshipped it saying
this is OUR god. No different than today, when God doesn't respond, we look to
man or an image and esteem them as our god. This was something I posted this
past Friday on my Facebook wall. Now let me expound on this one.
You see, Moses was communing with
God during the time of the golden calf. But the children of Israel didn’t
understand patience. Again, no different than us, we try to find our own savior
(most of the times, through men). They arbitrarily assumed that Moses forgot
about them so they decided to make a god who led them out of Egypt. It’s
interesting they wanted to make a god that showed they were led out of Egypt, considering in Numbers, they were so
ready to return to Egypt.
They were the epitome of wanting to have their cake and eat it too. No
different than us, we want to live prosperous, but at the same time, we want to
covet anything that doesn’t belong to us, but will sure enough fight to have
it. We want to have our cake and be able to eat it too; at the same time, be
jealous when one person does it the right way but you’re stuck in the same
situation. Aaron, giving in to these trifling people builds a calf. When
confronted by Moses, Aaron blames them saying, “you know how determined these
people are to do evil.” He should’ve manned up and said; I gave in to what they
wanted. He blamed the children of Israel. No different than us, we’ll
blame others for our own screw-ups.
Aaron said, tomorrow, there will be festival
to honor the Lord. The following day, the children of Israel sat down
to feast, but it turned to a wild party.
What’s the underlying message? Our
culture is so numb to what’s right and wrong, that we’ll worship anything that
pleases our flesh or gives us what our flesh wants (irrespective if it costs
you your spiritual life). Do I fall guilty of this? At times I do. What we need
to do is consider every action that we do. Who are we praising, God or man? Why
do we get offended when we insult the golden calf and not take offense when we
grieve the Lord by our actions? Why do we demand that the world stops to hear a
golden calf speak as if the calf is God? I foresee many people falling to the
golden calf (it could be a man, an image, anything that does not exalt God for
who He is). Sadly, our actions determine who we are really serving.
Part 2 will talk about needed
rebukes but not given due to ears being itched. Stay tuned.
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