Exodus 32:23-24 For they said to me, 'Make us gods that shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.' And I said to them, 'Whoever has any gold, let them break it off.' So they gave it to me, and I cast it into the fire, and this calf came out."
Moses spent forty days and forty nights on the mountain with God. All the Israelites that came out of bondage from Egypt were at that time under the temporary leadership of Aaron. The people started getting restless and decided that something may have happened to Moses. They decided they should get their own God.
Aaron asked everyone to donate their gold. They melted it, made a golden calf and began worshipping it. The Israelites forgot how the Lord delivered them from the hands of Pharaoh. They forgot the awesome miracles that He performed, including the incredible parting of the Red Sea.
The thing that gets my attention is when Moses comes back and asks him about the golden calf, Aaron replies..."and this calf came out." He knew as much as you and I do that if we throw some metal into the fire nothing really that is of any design is going to come out. It has to be heated at the right temperature and then shaped into what one wants.
How often when we are in a situation where we have given into our flesh, do we want to say, "It just happened?"
Let us go before the Lord today and ask Him to not only forgive us for our golden calves but also to renew our heart and mind that He may be Lord over everything, so that it may go well with us.
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