Idols or God?
Exodus 32
Ex 32:2-4 Aaron
answered them, “Take off the gold earrings that your wives, your sons and your
daughters are wearing, and bring them to me.”3 So all the people took off their
earrings and brought them to Aaron. 4 He took what they handed him and made it
into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they
said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”
PARENTS, you have a very good son. He has
special gifts of leadership and speech, and you designate him to teach his
siblings about God and to lead the family to worship God. You even honor him
with a special suit of clothes to enhance his dignity as he leads his family to
worship.
Then,
parents, you go away for a vacation and leave this special son in charge. When
you come home you find the house filled with all kinds of immorality that
dishonors everything you have taught your family. And the worst part is, your
specially gifted son is the leader of the party.
Aaron
became that bad son. How can a man so honored by God to be his High Priest
approve of idol worship? How could Aaron allow his people to say the most
horrid of words to a metal calf, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought
you up out of Egypt.”
Be alert. Our nature is to sin, to replace God
with the things of this earth. Check what you worship and be sure that you
worship God alone.
LIFE Link: “You
shall have no other gods before me.” (Ex 20:3)
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