Exodus 32:7-8 And the LORD said to Moses, “Go down, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them. They have made for themselves a golden calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’”
Notice that when God informs Moses of the sinful idol worship of the people of Israel, he states that "they have turned aside quickly out of the way" in which He had commanded them to walk. Now perhaps you are thinking, "You know, if I had been there and seen all the miracles God worked to set us free from our bondage in Egypt, I certainly would not have so quickly turned on God!" If you are thinking these thoughts, let me ask you this: Has God set you free from a hopeless captivity to sin? A bondage you had no hope of getting out of apart from His intervention? Well of course. All of us who have embraced the gospel of Christ and asked Jesus to forgive us of our sin and rebellion against him, have been set free. Yet, like the Israelites before us, we too have this tendency to quickly forsake the one who saved us for lessor "gods."
Do we need a Saviour? Most certainly!
Thanks for stopping by . . .
pj
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