Leah Ness's avatarIsaiah 43:1

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I just read the account of the golden calf in the book of Exodus and it was reminiscent of looking in a mirror.

If you’ve ever sat in a sermon about Exodus, you’ve probably heard that we modern day Christians are a lot like the Israelites were. I always had a hard time swallowing that.

I mean, look at the miracles they witnessed! The great deliverance the Lord worked for them! And then they turned around and rejected God in favor of a statue of a gold cow?

Nope, I never do anything like that.

What we sometimes fail to take into account are the cultural differences. Back then, the people were more honest. They wanted to rule their own lives and make their own laws. So they made gods for themselves and called them gods.

These days we make our own rules, but we call our gods things like…

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