Today's Reading
Exodus begins today with the story of the golden calf. The worship of the calf brought with it pagan sexual rituals and was abominable any way you looked at it. God's response was very strong. What do you think about it?
The next chapter is a powerful dialog between God and Moses. What does their intimacy tell you about your own relationship with God?
Proud Peter humiliates himself and greedy Judas destroys himself in Matthew today.
Psalms today:
4 For the word of the Lord holds true,
and we can trust everything he does.
5 He loves whatever is just and good;
the unfailing love of the Lord fills the earth.
New Living Translation (NLT)
Wow!
Do you want joy in your life? Find wisdom! Today's Proverb.
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I was surprised to see how quickly the people were willing to give up on the God that delivered them and turn to Pagen worship. They weren't in any kind of distress yet turned because they were tired of waiting. If God knows everything, including how sinful we are as humans why then is he so ready to destroy the people when they worship the calf? I would think he knew this was going to happen. Also, this presentation of God makes him seem so easy to anger and vengence. I tend to think of him as slow to anger and quick to love.
ReplyDeleteI have always wondered how people could fall into the whole "golden calf" thing. I am sure it must have been socially relative to what others at that time believed. I wonder how God views rock stars,our hobbies and professional sports?
ReplyDeleteYou ask a great question, Heather. Is God slow to anger and quick to forgive? The Bible says He is! Could it be that God's judgment was about far more than the calf? I think the pagan worship, the sexual promiscuity and the openness to possibly inter-marry with the pagan peoples around them caused God to act quick and tough before their sin got so out of hand that it would have consumed them all.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you think?