The Lord Scattered Them

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. The Lord said, “If as one people speaking 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 and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

Genesis 11:1-9

A group of people decided they would build a tower that would reach to the heavens, and that would unite their world.

God came down and stopped the project. God wanted the people to see Him as the solution to their problems. He revealed His plan to Abraham. Through the faith of Abraham and his descendants, He would show the world how to look for a city “whose architect and builder is God.”

Our faith does not rise out of our own dreams and solutions. The foundation of faith is in God alone and what He can do in and through us.

God wants to do what only He can do in and for us.

Our Daily Bread – September 2, 2015