1. When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, "Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don't know what has happened to him."
2. 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."
5. When Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of the calf and announced, "Tomorrow there will be a festival to the LORD."
6. So the next day the people rose early and sacrificed burnt offerings and presented fellowship offerings. Afterward they sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.
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We can get so impatient. Wasn't Moses only gone for 40days or less?
Nevertheless I can empathize with Israelites but I know God wants us to have patience. In fact patience is the first word of choice in describing fruit of the Spirit and love. It is hysterical how quickly I too can lose patience...
Aaron makes a serious mistake here. Because of the pressure from the crowds, he creates an idol from people's gold. It is amazing that Aaron, not just some random Israelites but the one who was chosen by God to work together with Moses was quickly turned away.
This shows how weak we truly are.
This passage shows me that we want something so dearly to hold onto and worship. Often it is misrepresented to idols. Only God can fill our desire to worship.
We have the desire to worship something visible to our eyes and something that we can touch. Yet God had it planned the other way. And finally as Paul said in Col1:15, Jesus is the image of the invisible God.
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