Prepare: Do we yield to pressure in our decision making?
Read: Exodus 23: 15-35
Breaking the tablets: Moses broke the tablets in which the 'Ten Commandments' were written into pieces. He burned with anger; however the breaking of the tablets had other implications. He was unable to hold the tablets which obviously declared that they should not make any other gods, whereas they had created an idol and mere dancing before it. He couldn't comprehend the disparity between the commandment and the event and for Moses there was no other go, but to break the tablets. Paul is correct in saying when the commandment was not there, I would not have known sin (Romans 7:7).
The sin of Aaron: It's right on the part of Moses to blame Aaron for the sin of creating the idol and allowing the people to dance before it. Aaron should have kept the people from sin in the absence of Moses. Because of yielding to the pressure, he not only created the idol but also let the people get out of control. Aaron tried to save himself by saying, "I threw the gold into the fire and out came this calf!" The calf did not just come up. Aaron cast the gold into a mould of a calf and later chiseled it with a tool.
We may find ourselves in the shoes of Aaron and yield to various pressures in our life. We may have the same theory of Aaron: out came the calf.
Respond: Lord, when our Aarons misguide us, raise Moses to confront us.
Read: Exodus 23: 15-35
Breaking the tablets: Moses broke the tablets in which the 'Ten Commandments' were written into pieces. He burned with anger; however the breaking of the tablets had other implications. He was unable to hold the tablets which obviously declared that they should not make any other gods, whereas they had created an idol and mere dancing before it. He couldn't comprehend the disparity between the commandment and the event and for Moses there was no other go, but to break the tablets. Paul is correct in saying when the commandment was not there, I would not have known sin (Romans 7:7).
The sin of Aaron: It's right on the part of Moses to blame Aaron for the sin of creating the idol and allowing the people to dance before it. Aaron should have kept the people from sin in the absence of Moses. Because of yielding to the pressure, he not only created the idol but also let the people get out of control. Aaron tried to save himself by saying, "I threw the gold into the fire and out came this calf!" The calf did not just come up. Aaron cast the gold into a mould of a calf and later chiseled it with a tool.
We may find ourselves in the shoes of Aaron and yield to various pressures in our life. We may have the same theory of Aaron: out came the calf.
Respond: Lord, when our Aarons misguide us, raise Moses to confront us.
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