Prone to Wander
It can be easy to read the story of the golden calf in Exodus 32 and think, “I would never do that.” Having grown impatient for Moses to return from the mountain, the Israelites turned from God and began to worship a man-made idol. But like the Israelites, we are all equally prone to wander. Alistair Begg reminds us that when we lose our way, we ought to follow Moses’s lead and start with these foundational words: “Thus says the Lord God of Israel.”
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It can be easy to read the story of the golden calf in Exodus 32 and think, “I would never do that.” Having grown impatient for Moses to return from the mountain, the Israelites turned from God and began to worship a man-made idol. But like the Israelites, we are all equally prone to wander. Alistair Begg reminds us that when we lose our way, we ought to follow Moses’s lead and start with these foundational words: “Thus says the Lord God of Israel.”