Ok, I know the title sounds a little heavy. But you know what a few months ago, I just had the urge to read Exodus, I love the stories in the old testament, no matter how many times I read them, I always feel God through his Holy spirit teaches me something new. I really feel that the word of God is never stale; it’s as if every time you read it with your heart, no matter how exhausted, time of day or discouraged you feel, The Lord always shows you a refreshing revelation. It’s interesting that every revelation is a reminder of how valuable we are not only as women but as daughters of the King.
So I read Exodus 32
When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, "Come, make us gods [a] who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don't know what has happened to him."
2 Aaron answered them, "Take off the gold earrings that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me." 3 So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron. 4 He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, "These are your gods, [b] O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt."
You know after reading this scripture I wasn't really upset at the lack of Faith the Israelites, but instead I felt sad that the WOMEN were the first to give up their Jewelry to mold the calf. According to scripture it seems like no one protected the WOMEN from giving up their Jewelry. I started thinking to myself the whole story would have been different if a few husbands, fathers and brothers stood up and said "We refuse to see our wives, daughters and sons give up their Jewelry to fashion Sin".
You know the Lord began to show me that the jewelry used to fashion the golden calf actually represented purity. The Israelites needed PURE Gold, PURITY to construct a god they could worship, a god that would make them feel secure, make them feel valued, provide for them, give them direction.
Unfortunately our world is a lot like the Israelites; our world is willing to sacrifice purity at the expense of God's children to fashion misleading gods that give our world false security, guidance and value. I mean if we look at every marketing strategy for cosmetics, cars, clothes e.t.c, it permits young women to give up their jewels or Purity to get our attention, and for false profitable gain.
I'm not promoting feminism or anything else, it’s just that after I read this scripture I started praying that the Lord would raise up men and women that will fight to protect the purity of this generation. Men and women that will stand and say "we will not allow our wives, daughters, sons, sisters and brothers to give up their PURITY to Fashion a Golden Calf". I pray that as we heal from the hurts of the past and remain healed, we would continue to ask the Lord to guard our hearts so that we would not give up our purity to fashion golden calves that will draw us away from an intimate relationship with Jesus.
As always you're a woman of worth fashioned with God's Love and that makes you a pure crowned princess of God meant to reign & rule with him.
You’re loved.
WOW
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