Nothing Without God
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· 4 viewsSometimes, what we want gets in the way of what is best for God and it blows up our ego and we start thinking to ourselves, we can be better, when in reality, there is no better than God.
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With God
With God
When we have God in our lives, it can seem like a normal day or a normal night. Sometimes we truly feel the spirit and other times we feel the need to share the spirit. But as Christians will, have and continue to do, we want to make everything either about us, for us, or ‘better’.
Sometimes, its good to step back and really put some thought into what God wants. Does God want this? Does God really want us to have these difficult moments? Is God putting us through something so that we have to learn from it? What is God’s true will?
Tower of Babel
Tower of Babel
Genesis 11:1–9 “1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2 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. 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. 4 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. 5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 6 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. 7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to…”
The tower of Babel was a way for ego to show greatly in the Bible. These people wanted to get closer to God, though they failed to realize that getting closer to God doesn’t mean physically, but spiritually. God rests in heaven and Earth is his footstool. God will be in heaven when we get there. Heaven is unreachable in any way except for death and Jesus.
Just as the tower and city grew larger, so did the minds of these people building it. There capabilities grew, talents, motives and soon God saw that they were no longer doing or making this place for them , but rather to show off what they could do. What their mind told them was right. They failed to take a step back a realize the true picture of things.