The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him today and what came to my heart and mind in Genesis 11:8-9,
"So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel -because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth."
The account of the tower of Babel is the next big event we read of in the affairs of mankind following the flood in Noah's day. The outlook of sinful mankind was the same then as it is today: mankind has an inescapable drive to unite into some monolithic union to challenge God's position, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves..." Verse 4.
Mankind today clearly has this drive to unite in ways to replace God. Whether it be for the removal of diseases that ravage mankind, to control the meteorological order of creation, to determine how fruitful our standard of living will be, those who pursue these efforts have god-sized aspirations at ruling and running everything within their grasp. It is not difficult to see that the people who lead in these efforts are the very ones who push for the removal of God from the public square, from the education of our children, from our lives.
What God did at the tower of Babel was to fragment mankind into various groups with differing languages that drove them all in different directions. Since then it has been impossible for mankind to pursue his "one world government" and its accompanying agenda of displacing God.
Did God do this just to be mean? Not at all. His action at that time, which is still felt today as much as it was in that day, has provided a context where man can still recognize his need for his Creator. "From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us." Acts 17:26-27.
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
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"So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel -because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth."
The account of the tower of Babel is the next big event we read of in the affairs of mankind following the flood in Noah's day. The outlook of sinful mankind was the same then as it is today: mankind has an inescapable drive to unite into some monolithic union to challenge God's position, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves..." Verse 4.
Mankind today clearly has this drive to unite in ways to replace God. Whether it be for the removal of diseases that ravage mankind, to control the meteorological order of creation, to determine how fruitful our standard of living will be, those who pursue these efforts have god-sized aspirations at ruling and running everything within their grasp. It is not difficult to see that the people who lead in these efforts are the very ones who push for the removal of God from the public square, from the education of our children, from our lives.
What God did at the tower of Babel was to fragment mankind into various groups with differing languages that drove them all in different directions. Since then it has been impossible for mankind to pursue his "one world government" and its accompanying agenda of displacing God.
Did God do this just to be mean? Not at all. His action at that time, which is still felt today as much as it was in that day, has provided a context where man can still recognize his need for his Creator. "From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us." Acts 17:26-27.
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
If you have someone you would like to receive these ruminations, send me their email address. I'm happy to add them to the list. If you are receiving this and would like to be removed from the list, just reply and let me know.
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