May
2009
WHOSE BABY ARE YOU?
We are all some one’s baby. You have your mother’s mouth, your dad’s ears, your uncles eye’s. We all tend to share characteristics with the family, and even 2 hours after we are born everyone is speculating who we most look like! G. K. Beale says that God actually mocked Israel in Exodus 32:1-14, when they worship golden calf in the wilderness, saying that they had become stiff-necked like a obstinate animal who refused to obey its master’s promptings. Israel became wild, like a wild animal, and had to be re-domasticated by Moses! In other words, they became what they worshiped. One of the key indictments of Israel’s idolatry in the wilderness was that they had exchanged their glory for shame (Psalm 106:19-20). By this Beale says the scripture means not God, but the glory of God that they should be reflecting to this world. God had made them imagers of his glory and they had exchanged that for something dim and unimpressive, the attributes of a beast, an animal, a cow! When, because of the strain of this incident, Moses asked to see the glory of God, the Lord passed before him and the glory of God was described as… “The Lord, the Lord the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love, and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands and forgiving wickedness and rebellion…” (Exodus 34:6-7). In other words the glory of God consists in the manifestation of his attributes, his holiness, his love, his righteousness, not just luminescence! The reflection of the glory of God Israel had exchanged, was to represent the attributes of a loving, holy and righteous God to a dying and sinful world.
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