“When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces at the foot of the mountain. 20 And he took the calf the people had made and burned it in the fire; then he ground it to powder, scattered it on the water and made the Israelites drink it.”
Exodus 32:19-20
They say: “You are what you eat!”
We’ve been talking about worship and that you become like what you worship.
I know of no other picture in scripture that more vividly drives this point home than the passage above. The Israelites had worshipped the Golden Calf while Moses was up on the mountain receiving the laws of God for His people. Moses burned the idol and ground it to powder and sprinkled it on their water making the rebellious children drink in their idolatry.
They literally consumed what they had worshipped.
Their god became their nutrition.
That is a pretty scary thought considering what they had been worshipping.
After all what could a calf fashioned by man’s hands do against the God who had rescued the Israelites from the mighty Pharaoh’s army?
Not many people would knowingly ingest poison and yet if you stop and think about it; isn’t that what we are doing if we choose to worship ‘other gods’? We bow our knees and offer allegiance to those same things that are slowly choking off our life and yet refuse to worship the one who alone is worthy. Take stock and, if need be, renounce the idol worship you have been engaged in. God offers life through Him and then admonishes us to choose life:
“…Now choose life, so that you and your children may live.”
Deuteronomy 30:19b
When you worship Him you are choosing life!
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