Idols or God?

Read Exodus 32-34
 
Exodus 32:2-4 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, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”
 
PARENTS, you have a very good son. He has special gifts of leadership and speech, and you designate him to teach his siblings about God. He is to lead the family to worship God. You even honor him with a special suit of clothes to enhance his dignity to honor God.
    Then, parents, you go away for a time and leave this special son in charge. But something is wrong when you come home. You find your house you built specifically to bless and care for our family filled with all forms of immorality. Your children are dishonoring everything you have taught your family. And worst of all, your specially gifted son is the leader of the shameful exhibitions. You can’t believe your ears, your eyes and your mind. The sights and sounds are so evil you even consider banning your son and his friends from your home forever.
    This is Aaron’s response to Moses’ absence. God has especially anointed him to be a holy representative of his people before the LORD. Aaron has received beautifully crafted clothes to honor his office. How can God’s High Priest so richly adorned with God’s commands and clothes so easily approve of idol worship? How is it possible for him to allow his people to say the most horrid of words against the Living God to a metal calf, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt?”
    As we consider Aaron’s disobedience, perhaps we should stop to ask: What do I do when the world calls me to turn from the God who has chosen me? Do I look to the idols, or do I keep my eyes on the Savior?
 
Do You See what “idols” keep you from God?