It could be comfortably concluded that a parent must go through quite a bit of frustration when they watch their children deliberately disobey them. This compounded in that a parent’s system of rules are generally in place to protect and develop their children into responsible adults. No less does God get irate at the actions of Israel. He has observed Israel now in their unfaithfulness and found them already transgressing one fifth of the commandments. As with strong emotions their initial emergence is rather emphatic. Certainly God’s first reaction rests on the extreme.
וְעַתָּה֙ הַנִּ֣יחָה לִּ֔י וְיִֽחַר־אַפִּ֥י בָהֶ֖ם וַאֲכַלֵּ֑ם וְאֶֽעֱשֶׂ֥ה אֹותְךָ֖ לְגֹ֥וי גָּדֹֽול׃ Exodus 32:10 Westminster Leningrad Codex
And now, create space, to me, and my wrath will burn, with them, and will devour them, and I will make, to you, a nation, a great (one).
God’s initial peak reaction is fed up with the faithless and unfocused Israelites. And he is ready to destroy them all and start anew with Moses. In light of Israel symbolically abandoning God, He is about to let them know how extreme abandonment can get. Fortunately, Moses is there to plead on behalf his siblings.
One thing that comes to heart lately,is that I ,as well as them that were brought out of Egypt, were born with a birth defect.
Romans 5;12 tells us ” wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.”
So the challenge becomes for us not to use that as a crutch, and for God to find a way to show us how to overcome our disability, and not allow us to use it as a crutch The answer of course is Jesus.
Romans 5:18 tells us ” therefore as by the offence of one judgement came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the gift of one, the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.”
For us to recognize our disability, allows us to ask for help. To remain in self justification, no matter how sincere will lead to the same results as those who perished in the desert.
To be justified by Christ is eternal life, for he overcomes our birth defects..