It has been a wild roller-coaster ride over the last few years. Since leaving “occupational ministry” I have begun to wear several hats. I love my life “outside” of the ministry profession. I have been challenged, blessed, and struggled through self-worth and finding validation through my work, my loves, and my passions.
In other words… I have had my ass kicked and God has STILL been there for me and Sarah.
I was reading in Genesis 11:1-9, the story of the Tower of Babel. If you are unfamiliar with the story, immediately after Noah and his family are released from the Ark, God tells them to “be fruitful and multiply.” And as the world becomes more and more populated the people decide to build for themselves a tower to make a name for themselves. And God say this and aid to himself, “they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.” After realizing this, God confused their languages and spread them all over the earth. So they never finished building the tower and God called the place Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth.
And the LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.
And I asked myself: What did God see in those people that he decided to confuse their language and spread them all over the earth?
Did God know that they would play God ourselves with technology and begin to clone human beings in their own image? Or did He see that they would begin to choose exactly what their children would look like, even before they were born?
Perhaps God foresaw that they would build machines that would allow them gaze into the outer reaches of the universe and actually see Heaven and no longer wonder about its existence, therefore taking away the need for faith?
What did God see that people setting their minds to that they would accomplish, so much so that even God said that it would be IMPOSSIBLE for them to not succeed?
(via www.scienceblogs.com)
Maybe God only postponed the inevitable and we are that future people, surpassing language and distance through the internet and advanced learning of language and technology? It does make you wonder…
What do you think that God saw that people setting their minds to?
It’s been a LONG time since I did a Sunday Night Decompress…and it’s been a while since I darkened the door of a church. And since I went to church this morning, I thought I might as well drop a little decompress on you! Sometimes you don’t have ANYTHING to say, and sometimes you have STUFF to say…today is that day…
So without any further adieu, here goes!
LOOKING AHEAD
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