Stress Test Devotional May 4
May 04, 2024
EXODUS 32:5-8 | 5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar
before it, and Aaron made a proclamation and said, “Tomorrow shall be a festival to the Lord.” 6 They rose early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought sacrifices of well-being, and the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to revel. 7 The Lord said to Moses, “Go down at once! Your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have acted
perversely; 8 they have been quick to turn aside from the way that I commanded them; they have cast for themselves an image of a calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’ ”
As we learned yesterday, Moses opposed his people’s idolatry, and shared God’s anger of their faithlessness. They had seen a mighty deliverance and watched God defeat a vast army at the Red Sea. They had observed the miraculous plagues that preceded it. They had sensed God’s holy presence at Mount Sinai.
Yet as soon as Moses was absent, they had reverted to other gods and to “revelry.” Moses faced their failure head on and named it—yet he, despite their problems, continued to believe in their potential.
Great leaders understand God can transform people and situations—He is in the reclamation business.
Do you see others’ potential as well as their problems?
Pray for someone who is currently sabotaging their own growth.
