Exodus 32:1 says, And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.  The people of Israel, God's chosen people, became impatient when Moses did not immediately come down from the mountain.  They demanded that Aaron make them gods to go before them, because they said they did not know what had happened to Moses.  I wonder how often we become impatient waiting on God today and begin to try to make our own gods.  Verse two says, And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.  Aaron went along with their demands, even though he was God's priest and Moses' spokesman.  He told them to bring him golden earrings.  God's spokesmen today certainly cannot afford to go along with the demands of the world.  Verse three says, And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.  These were things that God had blessed them with, and now they were attempting to use them to make their own gods.  We, as followers of Christ, cannot begin to worship the things that God blesses us with more than we worship God and still be faithful to Him.  Verse four states, And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.  Aaron, God's spokesman, took the the golden earrings and fashioned them into a golden calf and proclaimed it to be their god that had led them out of Egypt.  Aaron didn't just say this would be their god from now on, but he gave the golden calf credit for bringing them out of Egypt.  At this point, Aaron evidently didn't put his faith in God.  We can never afford to give credit to anything other than God for our success in the world.  If we do, this becomes our golden calf.  Verse five proclaims, And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD.  Aaron built an altar before the golden calf and proclaimed that the next dy would be a day of feast before the LORD.  He was in effect attempting to turn this god that he had made into the real God.  No matter how hard we try, we can never turn God's creation into God.  Verse six adds, And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.  The next morning, the people of Israel, God's chosen people, got up early to worship the golden calf, then they ate, drank and rose up to play.  They were happy to have something to worship.  People today who do not worship God are going to look for something to worship and they will be happy to go about their lives feeling no need to worship the real God.  Verse seven proclaims, And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:  God told Moses to get down the mountain because Moses' people had corrupted themselves.  God did not say that His people had corrupted themselves, because at this point they were not His people.  They had turned away from God.  Though I do not believe that if we have accepted Christ as our Savior and Lord that we will ever stop being a child of God, I do believe that our actions may at times cause us to act as someone other than a child of God.  Verse eight adds,They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.  God told Moses exactly what the people had done.  They quickly turned away from God and made their own god, attributing it with having delivered them from Egypt.  I wonder how often God's people turn away from Him today because they become impatient in waiting on His answers.  After sll God had done for them, they quickly turned away from Him.  Vere nine continues, And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:  God pronounced the people of Israel, His chosen people who He had delivered from Egypt and blessed with so much to be a stiff necked people.  We can never afford to be stiff necked people in our relationship with God if we are followers of Christ.  We must never attempt to attribute the things that God blesses us with to anything other than God's blessings.  All that we have belongs to God.  Verse ten concludes, Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.  God told Moses to leave Him alone so that He would not consume the people of Israel in His wrath.  God has every right to consume those who do not believe in Him by His wrath, but He chooses to act in mercy instead.