“This is the same Moses whom they rejected when they asked, ‘Who appointed you as our leader and judge?’ This is the Moses whom God sent as leader and deliverer. God did this with the help of the angel who appeared before him in the bush. This man led them out after he performed wonders and signs in Egypt at the Red Sea and for forty years in the wilderness. This is the Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your own people.’ This is the one who was in the assembly in the wilderness with our ancestors and with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai. He is the one who received life-giving words to give to us. He’s also the one whom our ancestors refused to obey. Instead, they pushed him aside and, in their thoughts and desires, returned to Egypt. They told Aaron, ‘Make us gods that will lead us. As for this Moses who led us out of Egypt, we don’t know what’s happened to him!’ That’s when they made an idol in the shape of a calf, offered a sacrifice to it, and began to celebrate what they had made with their own hands. So God turned away from them and handed them over to worship the stars in the sky, just as it is written in the scroll of the Prophets: Did you bring sacrifices and offerings to me for forty years in the wilderness, house of Israel? (Acts 7:35-42, CEB)
When we celebrate is it our own works?
To be honest, I have always found the ability of the Israelites wandering in the wilderness to make a golden calf as something to marvel at or celebrate. I mean they had left Egypt with everything they need to to melt gold down and create a mold to make a calf and worship it when Moses was gone to long. Like they knew this was going to happen and had prepared or they just figured out a way on the spot to do this. Either way it is a marvel.
But nothing like the marvels that God does when we allow God to be God and wrk through our lives and not make our own reasons to celebrate.
We need to follow and be where God needs us to be.
Celebrate God in your life and the lives of those around you
Loving People. Loving God.
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