Kowtowing to cows: Exodus 32:1-33:23
Rooster crow time: Matthew 26:69-27:14
Can you imagine playing a 10 string guitar for the Lord? Psalm 33:1-11
Listen up: Proverbs 8:33-36
It’s hard to imagine the faith of the Israelites being so shallow. You’d think after witnessing the many plagues that the Lord brought on the Egyptians, then walking across the Sea of Reeds, that they’d never, ever, no not ever, never worship anybody else or anything else except the Lord God Almighty. Yet, let Moses be away for a little while & they grow eager to worship something, anything since they can no longer see God’s representative, Moses. Every time I read this I want to reach inside my Bible, shake the Israelites by the shoulder, and tell them, “Wake up, idiots!”
Then fast forward to the 21st century America and what do we see? We still see people giving more worship to man made things than to God. Things like:
• Money
• TV shows
• Social status
• Sports
• Sex
• Alcohol
• Drugs
• Video games
If one of these things is more of a passion for you than Jesus, then it’s your idol. Jesus needs to be el numero uno. Often the word “adultery” is used throughout the Bible to speak not of someone cheating on their spouse, but how God feels about us worshipping idols. He refers to is as adultery, because He sees it as us cheating on Him.
All three of the adults who post on this blog are married. If one of us cheated on our husband/wives, it’d be awful. Or what if one of us didn’t cheat like we think of, but spent much of our time being absorbed by someone else of the opposite sex. For example, what if started talking all the time about an attractive actress or a hot looking singer, while hardly ever talking to or about my wife?
I believe that’s the same thing that happens on a spiritual level when we spend more time listening to one band, watching one show, achieving one goal, etc. than we do with the Lord in payer, Bible reading, or worship. When we do that, we’ve made that band, that show, or that goal our idol, and we’re about as ridiculous when we do it as the Israelites were by worshiping a gold moo cow that they made themselves.
You are exactly right... I think we have to look at the Israelites and shake our heads, but then turn around and examine our own hearts when we do worse by turning to idols even after we know of Jesus' resurrection, the greatest miracle and display of God's glory ever! that's why we need one another to remind us of what God has done so that we can remember every day to worship him as #1.
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