Our choices have consequences.

Some days ago (click here to read post of 14th April) I wrote about how the Israelites made a choice not to listen to God’s voice for themselves. Now, some weeks later, we see the devastating consequences of that choice. In Exodus 32, we pick up the story at the point where Moses has been up on the mountain meeting with the Lord. If the people had stuck with doing things God’s way, they would have heard every word He was saying to Moses. Instead, after six weeks of silence, they begin to wonder what has happened to Moses and they say (vs 1) “Let’s make us some gods who can lead us.” And so begins the tragedy, and the travesty, of the golden calf. 

All choices have consequences, and the choice (conscious or unconscious) not to listen to God’s voice for ourselves can have a particularly devastating knock-on effect in our lives in terms of the potential errors and heresy that it exposes us to.

Read on in the post below for more about the implications of creating our own gods.