04/10/2021
“Why the delay”?
Exodus 32:1 “When the people’s saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, they gathered together to AARON, and said to him,Up, make us gods to go before us; for this man Moses,we do not know what has become of him.
When I read this, it jumped out at me.
This is a lesson from the Lord that we need right now. My question lately
Has been, Lord when will You move.......the Israelites waited forty days for Moses to come down that mountain, we’ve waited much longer.
As I continued reading this chapter, the people decided to take matters into their own hands, instead of living in expectation of what God was about to
do.(This is where the fear of God hit me hard,( going back to normal living) not expecting anything to change, ( serving wood hay and stubble)
Well let’s go on and see what happens when they (the Israelites )were willing to settle for any one that would satisfy their flesh.
vs7 “The Lord said to Moses,Go down for your people,whom you brought out of Egypt( talking about God’s people)have corrupted themselves. They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded.
Psalm 42:5”
Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him”
Moses begins to stand in the gap, and dialogs with God,asking God to turn from His fierce anger, and change His mind , “then the Lord turned”from the evil which He had thought to do to His people.This is the power of our ( standing in the gap for our families)
As Moses came down from the “mountain of God” and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses anger blazed., he took the calf and burned it in the fire and made the people drink the water that contained the powdered calf.
He then spoke to the people, and said, you have sinned a great sin,
In vs.26” then Moses said to the people, whoever is on the Lords side , let him come to me!
All the Levites gathered together to him.
And the Lord said, to the levites,every man put his sword on his side and go in and out from the gate throughout the camp and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, his neighbor, and there fell that day 3000 men.
Here is where God separated, the wheat from the tares.
Vs33”But the Lord said to Moses,whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot them out(not you) out of My Book.
So why the delay. As I talk to people I hear their thinking. This is the way it is going to be. Something inside rises up,in me and says No! This is a delay to put our in trust God for His timing.
Personally I’ m waiting for God to turn the tide ( like He did at the “Red Sea”
“For the glory of the Lord is about to cover this world like the waters cover the sea,l”
Let us wait patiently for our mighty God to bring salvation and not turn aside leaning to our own understanding.