SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 05/02/2006
My Worship Time Focus:
A Judgment from God with Grace
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Genesis 11:5-9
Message of the verse: “5 The LORD came down to see the city and the
tower which the sons of men had built. 6 The LORD said, ‘Behold, they are one people,
and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they
purpose to do will be impossible for them. 7 ‘Come, let Us go down and there
confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.’
8 So the LORD
scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they
stopped building the city. 9 Therefore its name was called Babel
In the
first section of this story, (verse 3) the people wanted to make a tower to
reach up to God, while in verse five it is said that the Lord came down to see
this city, and He came down with judgment, but His judgment was also flavored
with grace, because He did not destroy these people, but He caused them to
speak different languages so that they could not get together and continue to
sin in this manner. People of different
languages do sin together, however because of the judgment of confusing the
languages mankind was not able to get together and put their knowledge together
so that they would have the knowledge to have such great technology that would have
caused God to destroy the world.
This whole
thing started in Babel which latter became Babylon and there is much to say
about Babylon in the Scriptures. By
reading the 17th and 18th chapters of Revelation one can
see the destruction of the “Religious” and the political Babylon and both of
these had the same objective that these early people of Genesis eleven had,
only because of the modern technology the people who were being destroyed in
the scene in Revelations were able to accomplish what the people of Genesis
were not able to accomplish because of this judgment with grace from the Lord.
I believe
that if God had not confused the languages in Babel that He would have found it
necessary to destroy the earth in the manner that is described in Revelations
6-18 a lot sooner, but by confusing the languages it would take people a long
time to gain in technology to do things that were like this.
At the
birth of the Church in Acts chapter two God gave the Apostles the ability to
speak in different languages in order to tell the good news of the Gospel, in a
sense God did a reverse Babel that brought glory to Himself, while the original
Babel was done to bring glory to man.
One more
contrast that I wish to bring up here and that is the contrast between Babylon,
(the city of man) and the New Jerusalem, (the city of God).
Spiritual meaning for my life today: This section gives a contrast between good
and evil, and between doing the will of God and doing the will of man, and I
must be like Joshua who said “as for me and my house we will serve the Lord.”
The Word of God has brought conviction to my heart as I read
and studied it this morning.
My Steps of Faith
Today: Continue to trust the Lord in
this very long storm that I have been going through, continue to praise Him in
the storm, and as the storm gets stronger still continue to praise the Lord,
for it is He who is in control. Trust
the Lord to direct my path, to continue to teach me contentment, and to give me
the grace I need for each day.
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