Exodus chapter 32

1 When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered round Aaron and said, Come, make us gods 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.

Here it is, only two months after leaving Egypt, after seeing just what God can do, walking through the parted waters of the Red Sea, seeing Pharaoh and his army being destroyed, having the pillar of fire by night and smoke by day to guide them, and experiencing daily the care and provision of God through the manna and quails. Yet as soon as Moses disappears, the people are anxious, feeling lost, bereft, abandoned, so want to make an image of God, something that they can see and touch, something physical, tangible, real. They want to mould God into something that they can control, to make Him malleable, manageable.

How often do we put things in our lives before God or try to make God into something we can contain? You can't put God into a box, shape Him to fit your wants and needs, make Him smaller than He is, more manageable, controllable. God is so amazing, so awesome, so unbelievably good, so holy, so pure, so magnificent, so wonderful. You cannot contain God or make Him fit your expectations. He is surprising, intoxicating, wonderful, amazing, a never ending source of joy. There is no box big enough to hold the One who created everything there is!