The Golden Calves and the Lamb of God

SUMMARY: We must constantly evaluate the direction of our lives and prayerfully redirect ourselves towards God. We often attribute power to things other than God and must recognize and crumble our own golden calves. Pharaoh will continue to tempt us with promises of easy profit, but we must trust in Jesus as the only way and direction. We must be wary of false prophets and practices that go against God's word. Trust in God and flee from the temptation to rely on anything else.

God invites us constantly to evaluate the direction we are taking in life and with it, and the necessary prayer, (as to remember our identity) to redirect the steps so as not to get away from Him. We are propitious to melt golden calves and attribute powers to them that only God possesses. The loving and merciful God yearns for total devotion. In this sense God is totalitarian for our good, omnipotent, has no rival. He gave us freedom with Christ and at times we seem like slaves, as if we have not yet been freed from spiritual Egypt. Pharaoh chases us and God continues to part the waters; we crossed the sea of (God's) trials and temptations in our tracks and attributed the miracle to the abilities of our feet in running to save ourselves from destruction. Or maybe the golden calf.

Find the golden calf that you have melted to seek direction in your life, and crumble it like Moses did. Make it dust (Exodus 32.10) and give God the glory. Take a good look around you, because Pharaoh will try to chase you once again, not to hurt you, but to get you drunk with his promises of easy profit if you build altars to your golden calf. The Christian who feels persecuted has the opportunity to glory in the Lord. And indeed, all who want to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. (2 Timothy 3.12).