Our Golden Calf

I have been confronted with my sinfulness these past two days. No one has called me out on it but it has been revealed to me just by looking at my own life. It makes me upset! I want to follow God but I find myself reaching out for that same old piece of forbidden fruit then I slip and fall and knock my head loose. Somebody tell me what's a boy supposed to do?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip7MaWhfW_g

I get so clumsy, and so foolish. I feel clean on the outside but on the inside I feel unclean. I feel like I have an idea of how Aaron must have felt after the Golden Calf incident. So what am I supposed to do after being confronted with sin in my own life? Do what Aaron did in the verse directly after that. "Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, 'Whoever is for the Lord, come to me!' And all the sons of Levi gathered together to him." 

I can imagine Aaron being one of the first to be beside Moses. Otherwise, he probably would have died for his sin and he definitely would not have become the high priest of the people. In our lives we need that battle cry. "Whoever is for God come and join us! If you aren't then stay away!" I want to be one of the Levites that run straight to God when they realize their sin. 

Do everything you do for the glory of the one who made you. Whether you are working in a church or shoveling horse stalls. Whether you are on a mission trip to Kenya or reaching out to a hurting friend. God deserves the glory in our lives. So lets get off our high horses, find the sin in our lives, and run to the cross! Sound good? "I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me" (Galatians 2:20)

That's the choice we have to make every day. Do we serve God? Or do we serve men? Until next time may the grace of God be with you as you search out the sin in your life and expel it.