"Out Came this Calf" - Thoughts on Exodus 32

Exodus 32 shows that idolatry is always active not passive. Idol worship never just happens to you. The fire of circumstance and the actions of other people are never the reason for your idolatry.

Idols are always fashioned and made. They are formed and nurtured and sculpted and cultivated. They don't just come out of nowhere.

How often are you shocked and reply, like Aaron to Moses, "...out came this calf." Rather then repenting and acknoweldging that you've been fashioning that idol in your heart with "a graving tool" all along.

Let's be like Moses and "grind" those idols "to powder."

Idolaters, "every man his brother, and every man his friend, and every man his neighbor," still deserve to be slayed with the sword by the "sons of Levi."

Thankfully, which Moses cries out to God for, there is "atonement for your sin."

The idolatrous golden calves of our hearts can be cleansed by the spotless Lamb, Jesus, who "takes away the sin of the world."

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