Day
Three: Genesis 11:1-7 At
one time the whole earth had the same language and vocabulary. As people
migrated from the east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled
there. They said to each other, “Come, let us make oven-fired bricks.” They had
brick for stone and asphalt for mortar. And they said, “Come, let us build
ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Let us make a name for
ourselves; otherwise, we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.
“Then the Lord came down to look over the city and the tower that the men were
building. he Lord said, “If, as one people all having the same language, they
have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for
them. Come, let Us go down there and confuse their language so that they will
not understand one another’s speech.”
THERE HAVE BEEN MANY OCCASIONS where I hear my kids screaming
for me from the playroom downstairs. “Come look! Come look!” they say with such
excitement that I can’t help but think, “This is going to be good!” My
expectations are usually met with a sloppy, crooked, Leaning-Tower-of-Pisa,
Lego house. I can’t say what I am really thinking, so with as much enthusiasm
as I can muster up, I exclaim, “Isn’t that…something?!” What did I expect?
These are kids, not architects, engineers, or builders.
In Genesis 11 we read about a story where God’s creation
tried something similar. Man decided to build a tower to try to get to heaven
and to make a name for themselves. Unfortunately for man, there were a couple
of problems with this plan.
First, God clearly let humanity know that their job was to
make His name known. Here we see them trying to make a name for
themselves. The problem with that endeavor is it goes completely against God’s
desire and intentions for man.
Second, it consisted of mere humans trying to do a divine
work (build a tower to heaven). They were trying to be god of their own lives.
Though we may try to make a name for ourselves or try to be god over own our
lives, in the end, we are unable to do anything great on our own.
PAUSE AND REFLECT
▷▷Why did God disapprove of man building the tower?
▷▷What does this teach us about God?
▷▷What
does this teach us about man?
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