THE MEEK APPEASES HIS BURNING ANGER

EXODUS 32:1-19

Sometimes we as God’s own people make the mistake of sharing God’s glory with other handmade image. This is the major act that provokes God’s anger towards His people. It is natural to notice that men believes on what they can see, feel and touch, without knowing that  those things you can feel and touch are made from the one you cannot see, feel  and touch. Because God is invisible being to the children of Israel, they tend to see Moses as an Oracle, attributing glory to Him rather than the maker. Now Moses went away to answer God on the mountain. They now felt that the Oracle has gone away, they don’t have any other alternative than to appoint an Oracle that will replace Moses as well as give those answers to prayers of needs and security. And they appointed Aaron, Who built a god for them as a Golden Calf,  God himself was not happy for this act.

EXODUS 32:9

(9)       “Jehovah went on to say to Moses “I have seen

            That this is an obstinate people

(10)     So now let me be, and I will exterminate them

in my burning anger and let me make a nation,

from you instead”

You can see that just as God is a merciful God, He is also a consuming fire when you provoke Him. You can do everything to God but make sure you don’t trigger His jealousy. His jealousy goes with burning anger. It was the same Moses that interceded on behalf of his people.

EXODUS 9:11

(11)     “Then Moses appealed to Jehovah his God and said

            “why O Jehovah, should you turn burning anger

            Against your people after bringing them out

            Of the land of Egypt with great power and with

            A mighty hand?”

Imagine God listening to advice from Moses to turn around His anger. In a nutshell, God became patient towards the children of Israel because of Moses. What a meek man? A man with a teachable spiri t.

EXODUS 32:19

(17)           “ As soon as Moses got near the camp and saw the calf

and dances his anger began to blaze and

he threw the tablet from his hands and shattered

them at the foot of the mountain”

From this point, we can see that anger is a nature of God. And that is why God permits us to be angry but we should not let our anger destroy valuable things for us and others.

Anger is God’s solid working material, and because He created us in His image and after his likeness. He does not see it as a mistake but as a nature that can be controlled. Just as Moses advised God and God controlled his anger, so that it does not destroy things for us. Even Moses that advised God became a victim of anger later. He allowed the anger to push him to the point of destroying the tablets of commandment God gave Him for the children of Israel. As This Year Progresses, I curse every root of anger that will destroy things for you in Jesus name. Amen.