![]() We should not raise altars not true gods as did the people of Israel. It is a command not to create idols and become slaves. "Thou shalt have no other gods before me". In every moment we can transpose the presence of God, in the melodiousness of the gurgling spring water, the sweetness of the scent of flowers in the spring breeze whisper, but also in the wonderful charm of nature all that lush, she sings his wonders: from 'humble blade of grass, the shining star of the firmament, from insignificant grain of sand, the immensity of outer space, the small drop of dew, the immensity of the seas. Our idols can coexist with fidelity to God? Evidently not: "No servant can serve two masters: for either one will hate the one and love and despise the other. Countless are our idols: power, money, sex, success, the works of human genius, self-affirmation, to name a few. Idols, even if you cannot represent, there are expressions of our desires, we can chained to their will to make us slaves and become, finally, the only reason for our living. The people who had been brought as on eagles' wings toward their God, as well as had been freed from the slavery of Egypt, the same people who said: "We will do all that the Lord said," now it had created an idol: the golden calf. ![]() The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and on that day perished among about three thousand men. He commanded them, "said the Lord God of Israel: Each of you put on his sword: go around the field, from one side, and each one kill his brother, friend, relative". And they gathered around him the sons of Levi. And they exclaimed: "O Israel, this is your god, who has delivered you out of Egypt!" When Moses saw the unbridled people, for Aaron had let them abandon idolatry, making it the mockery of his opponents, he stopped on the gate of the camp and shouted, "Who is the Lord?. and He took them from their hands, they melted the gold and made a calf of it. In that case, our actions cannot depend on the will of our free will, but it will subject to cravings.Īnd when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, gathered themselves to Aaron, and said, "Come, make us gods who go before us for this Moses, the man that brought us out of Egypt, we do not know what happened to ". If as has been stated, the thought is the source of action, then you need to keep it free of distractions not to leave him free to be captured by all that passes under our senses. Every love to stay this should be, in fact, powered at all times of our existence, or distractions, banishing the thought and the promises of fidelity, they will lapse into oblivion. The human feeling does not escape the law of firmness and the will. To defeat them successfully and not fall into guilty distractions, the will should be established and commitment to this noble goal. After all, no one can by his own efforts escape the temptations that can generate, if left unchecked, uncontrollable lusts and desires. Man is inclined not only to fall in vices through the lusts, but to raise the same to their idols. ![]() It is written: "Worship the Lord your God and him only you shall serve". Do not prostrate before them or worship them". Thou shalt not make any graven image of what is in heaven above, nor what is in the earth beneath, nor of what is in acquaint underground. "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to the house of bondage shalt have no other gods before me. ![]()
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