EXODUS 32:21-35
An overturned cattle truck caused the expressway to be closed for several hours. The animals had gotten away and were now roaming the highway. The wandering cattle reminded me of something I had recently read in Exodus 32 about God’s people who had gone astray.
While Moses was receiving the law from God on Mt. Sinai, his brother Aaron helped God’s people in veering away by constructing an idol in the shape of a golden calf. The writer of Hebrews reminds us of God’s wrath against idolatry and people who follow their heart (Hebrews 3:10).
God surely knows how easily our hearts wander. His Word clearly states that He is the Lord, and that we are not to worship any other gods (Exodus 20:2-6).
Above other gods, the Lord is the mighty God and the great King (Psalm 95:3). He is still the only God who reigns!
An idol is anything we want very much, especially more than we want God.
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Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here’s my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above.
— Robert Robinson’s hymn: “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” (1758)
