Exodus 32:1 - "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."
How often we like Israel are impatient with God. Unwilling to wait on him. Instead we go running off and do our own thing. It wasn't that they didn't know God existed. There was no doubt about this because they saw his glory on the mountain and he spoke to them. They saw his mighty power in delivering them out of Egypt. Yet, despite this they decided to make gods. They were brought out of Egypt, but Egypt was still in them. To us it may seem sheer stupidity that they chose to make idols and proclaim them as their gods. Yet, this is the nature of man. They chose a lie over the truth because they didn't want to follow the truth, not because of ignorance.
We often do they same thing. We know what is true. We have no doubt it is true, but we choose not to obey they truth. We may not have physical idols in your life. Yet, we have spiritual idols in our lives. Things you have chosen to cling to with full knowledge that they are worthless, but it pleases you to do so. It boils down to control. We like to be in control of our own lives and destiny. It is for this same reason the people of Israel made idols for themselves.
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