We Were Really Something!

And the LORD said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. Genesis 11:6

For quite some time it has been the dream of many to be part of project where people work together to accomplish something. It would seem that the last time that happened without striving, envy, backstabbing, and other fallen behaviors was at this place called Babel. This was also the last place where people understood one another well. We were really something back in the day! 

Now to the unbeliever, this is a myth that tells a tale of an envious god who feared that we were competition for him and in a petty fit of rage he called upon some others to help him make it hard for us to talk to one another. To the believer though, this is the story of God's love that made it an imperative to obey God's commandments. Those were to multiply and fill the earth, which He had twice given - to Adam and then to Noah - and at the time of Babel was directly disobeyed as a mission statement in verse 4, to wit: "...lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth." Yes, we were really something making a city and a tower specifically to disobey the command of God! 

May the mercy of the Lord fill us today,
Bucky