Exodus 31 & 32, Mark 6: 30-56, Psalm 33: 12-22
Exodus 32: 1 (ESV)
“When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from
the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him,
“Up, make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who
brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”
In verse 1 from Exodus 32, we read that the people of Israel
got tired of waiting for Moses because they hadn’t seen him for 40 days after
he went up into the mountains to talk to God. In one Bible commentary I wrote,
the author said that how we feel about God’s delays in our life is a measure of
our spiritual maturity. I think the people of Israel felt abandoned by Moses and
were afraid despite their miraculous passage through the red sea and all they saw
God do during the 10 plagues against Egypt. They didn’t trust God or Moses
enough to wait for his return, and they went back to their old ways of wanting
another God to lead them. Not knowing when Moses was coming back or if he was
even coming back led the people of Israel to doubt God and Moses. When we have
doubts about God and his love and care for us, we often look for security and
love elsewhere. Other things become our God or our Idol so we can feel that
sense of security. But once we doubt God and turn to sin, we can cause even
more delays to what we want. By doubting God, the people of Israel were punished
and would be delayed 40 years before they entered the land promised to them. And
the generation that wanted Aaron to make new idols for them did not live long
enough to even enter the promised land. We see a clear example in Exodus the
price we could pay for doubting God’s plan for our lives.
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