A Private Moment of Disobedience

And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.  Genesis 11:4

So, I lift my leg up onto a chair to remove my boot and... Aaugh! Great, horrible, giant bug, black lagoon-like, alien creature, God save the Queen, Help! As my older eyes do not focus closely very well anymore, I could not at first tell that it was two grasshoppers having a private moment on my pant leg. Why they should think that was the place for their little date night, I do not know. That was last night, on to more important matters.

We often read the Tower of Babel story and think that the Lord did not want tall towers popping up everywhere, but there is a measure of disobedience in the verse for today. God had twice by this time told His humans to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. This gang of builders built to avoid being scattered over the face of the earth, which was going against exactly what God wanted to happen. A few verses later, God scatters the reluctant ones over the face of the earth and gives them some language confusion to keep them apart. A tall tower wasn't the problem, it was the purpose of the tower and their desire to not do what God had told them to do. Many years later, an apostle of our Lord Jesus would say a similar thing in telling us that to know what to do but avoid doing it, to us it is a sin. A good effort in prayer and Bible study for us is to find out just what the Lord God would have us to do!

Have a great day in the love of the Lord!

Bucky