22 “Do not be angry, my lord,” Aaron answered. “You know how prone these people are to evil. '
today I read and re-read this chapter and I think there might be a lot of things tucked in here I'm not getting. Did Moses really get God t change his plans, if so was that showing the power of prayer and connection to God?
But finally I selected short verse above as a reminder of how quickly I can fall away from God if I do not seek him and get into his word and speak to him. These people had just been brought out of Egypt and in a few short days after not hearing from Moses they are prepared to worship some golden calf god they created.
so today I pray to be close to you God and not let the things around me replace my time with you.
knut
Yeah, I thought the same thing as I read it. It does look like Moses has some influence with God. The more I think about it though....God knew what the people were doing, and it made him really angry. Moses didn't know how nuts the people had gotten, so his response was different from God's. But, when he went down and saw how far the people had strayed....his reaction was very similar to God's. He and the Levites killed 3000 of their own people. I can't imagine what this must have looked like. Or what it looked like to their enemies.
ReplyDeleteStrange times indeed.