Exodus 32:4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

I do not recall anyone ever asking this question: Where did Aaron learn the skills to fashion a golden idol? In this moment, when we look at the sins of the exiles who came out of Egypt, what is talked about more than anything else is the rebellion, unfaithfulness, and their returning to pagan worship.

Say what you will about Aaron’s behavior and rationalize his response to the demands of the people but please do not lose focus on the how in exclaiming the why.

Isaiah 42:9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.

The trap here is falling back into how you did things in the past. Learned behavior is one of the hardest things for us to overcome, especially if we have had some success in the effort. Behaviors become a thoughtless action, they are so ingrained into our actions and reactions we seldom give thought to them.

Isaiah 43:19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

How will you get to see these new things if you will not go where God is doing His new thing? He said in 42:9 that before they happen He will declare them to you. Are you going to remain where the past has some hold on you or are you going to break the mold of the golden calf and spring forward to see what the Lord is doing?

Isaiah 46:5 To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?

Think about the mob. A made man was not to be touched by anyone without permission. The consequences for harming a made man was death, swift and violent. A message would be sent to anyone who might even think about touching another made man.

That doesn’t sound very realistic within the realm of man considering we belong to God, and it is God who made us, in His image. Yet it is true.

Job 1:10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

The fact that I don’t always feel like that is the truth does not alter the fact that I belong to God and His blessings are for me and mine. Our feelings are earth born, not of the spirit. That which is spirit is spirit in nature and understanding and is above that which is earth born. Being above, the spirit has superiority above that which is earth born. We suffer in the flesh, but never in the spirit.

The enemy cannot touch, harm, nor stain the spirit, in this I am a made man. Flesh is flesh and will ache, age, wither and die, but the spirit is ageless and eternal, untouchable, incorruptible, God made. When we shed this mortal coil, we shall be surrounded in the spirit with an incorruptible body worthy of the life that lives in us now.

Colossians 1:10-11 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;

Yet unlike the worldly seed we can enjoy the fruits of His blessings and experience His glorious power now, before we come to that experience.

Because we are made.