A GOLDEN CALF

PRAYER MOMENT  

Monday 27 July 2015

A GOLDEN CALF

Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “Make us a god to go at our head; this Moses, the man who brought us up from Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.” (Exodus 32:15…34)

Reflection. The complaints of the people in the desert grew to such a crescendo that they eventually rejected God and his servant Moses. It is a moment of high drama when the whole plan of God is thrown into jeopardy. With a burst of anger Moses steadies the situation and retrieves the relationship but it was a moment seared into the memory of Israel and stands for those countless moments of rejection, partial or complete, that have continued in our relationship with God through the ages.We know how easy it is to fashion “golden calves” as when we  put something else – career, money, status, - any turning away from having God at the centre of our lives. The news is full of choices  that fall short of the truth and we know the find the same struggle in our own hearts.

Prayer. Lord, help us to notice when we are making golden calves in our lives and give us the courage to react. Amen.

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