Tommy Mann

  In Exodus 32 we read the familiar story of Aaron making a golden calf for the people to worship because Moses was taking too long receiving the Ten Commandments. Do you remember what he used to make the golden calf? He asked for the earrings to be donated to the cause, so these Israelites essentially worshipped the very jewelry they were wearing just the day before.       In verses 3-4 we read: “So all the people took off the rings of gold that were in their ears and brought them to Aaron. And he received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a golden calf.”   I think it is ridiculous that they worshipped a golden calf, but I wonder what the calf thought of the whole thing.    “Take off your jewelry,” Aaron said, “And bring me all you have.” He took all the peoples’ earrings  And made a golden calf.   I wonder what that calf would think —hypothetically,  As it watched the people that day Bowing down on ...