It’s the end of the first week of 2019.
I truly thought I’d have a completed direction for this devotional series by now, but it simply isn’t ready yet. Life has been hectic these last two months. Please bear with me at least until Easter.
In the meantime, you may visit my other blogs, Ephemera Captured or As Grandma Says. Post there have been less frequent than on this blog, but you might find something to pique your interest in them.
Thank you for your patience.
After more than 300 daily posts and another 300 weekly posts, I’ve decided to take a break. I’m working on a plan for next year.
In the mean time I wish you a joyous holiday season.
Thank you
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
~~ Genesis 11:1-9 (KJV).
Why was the building of the Tower of Babel so displeasing to God?
The people’s stated aim was to build a tower that reached heaven so they could make a name for themselves. The tower was built to further man’s designs and feed his ego — not to get closer to God. In effect man decided to put himself above God.
We still have this problem today. Secular humanism seeks to make man the measure of all things — and a relative measure at that.
Without acknowledging God’s sovereignty, man has no absolute standard for morals, ethics or behavior. We live in a society that accommodates an “it’s okay for you, but it’s not right for me” attitude. This effectively lets each man decide right and wrong for himself without any other basis.
I believe it was this arrogant attitude that sparked God’s displeasure.
We seem to be prideful when we have no reason to be proud. After all, everything is the Lord’s. That includes us when we choose to follow Him.
Father, God,
Help us to be ever mindful that our relationship with You is the most important thing in our lives. Keep us, we pray, from arrogant pride.
In Jesus’ most precious name.
Amen
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