Idol Worship

Idols were a major thing in the days of the bible and they still are in other countries.  In some countries there is worship of of 3,000 gods.  It's incredible.  But Americans have the same action in idol worship. Here's a verse that made me laugh when I first read it.

They made a calf in Ho'-reb, and whorshippped the molten image.  Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass..  They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt.  Psalm 106:19-21

These verses say that the people of Israel turned their glory of the LORD into something that eats grass.  The amazing power and wonder of God was reduced to a cow.  I laughed, and then I thought, we do the same thing.  We changed God's awesome wonder in our lives to things that can do nothing in themselves.  Money, which is only paper.  It has no monitary value in itself.  Or we turn God into videogames.  We put a false reality above our Creator.  For some of us it may be a person.  We put them on a pedistool thinking they will never lie cheat or steal when they are only human, NOT God.  No matter what it is if we spend more time in that than the Father it becomes an idol.

In the time that the Israels had built this idol Moses had left to retrieve God's law for the people.  He had been taking a while and either they had gotten bored or they had got tired of waiting on the LORD.  A lot of our relationship with Christ is waiting.  Many times it says wait on the LORD, or suffer (patience) in Christ (Isaiah 40:31, Psalm 27:14, Galations 6:9)  When these times are not the most exciting or they seem to not get the results we want we must stand fast in Him and endure because God's glory is so much greater.  For those that had built the calf they did not get to see the promise land, and for us it will be the same.  We may miss out on His blessings.