The Making of Babel

The Making of Babel

God built man so that man could make things happen on the earth. Man was made in the very image of God. Though man didn't create the world, he always wished he did and would go any length to proof that it wasn't God who did.

Man would have loved to be the one to create the world. He had always had this rebellion thing against God.

Man has extremely incredible ability to make things happen. In fact, on planet earth, He is a god and almost nothing is impossible to the force of his brain and brawn.

Very few challenges have rattled man for too long. In the pursuits of conquering the earth, he had spared nothing that had confronted him.

His advancement against sicknesses and diseases is on record, no sickness or disease no matter how deadly has survived against man. In technology and agriculture man has established his authority on the earth, in communications and transportation man kept conquering light years upon light years, transversing the universe as if taking a stroll in the neighborhood.

Man has truly made the most of what was inbuilt within him by his Creator at his creation.
It is written, ' [My Offline Bible] Genesis  1
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.'

So the blessing that was inbuilt in him to fill up the earth, subdue it, and to make him have dominion on the earth has truly been proven!

The problem however is in the rebellion that has infested man since the beginning. And that has been his shortcoming.

Man was not given the authority and ability to conquer himself with all the prowess and power that was bestowed upon him. God reserved that position for Himself. That's why man with all his achievements still has issues with himself. He wasn't given the power to conquer himself, no matter how he tries!

So we'll always have wars and war technologies will keep growing with military and security budget soaring and topping the shopping list of nations, yet peace won't come except the fake ones.

Man would want to conquer man in his rebellion against God.

Meanwhile, he won't be able to enjoy all his achievements if he remains unconquered! He needs to be at peace to enjoy what he has made but rebellion won't let him.

He can only conquer himself through submission to the authority of Him who created him. I hope he does in time! Otherwise, man is heading towards self-destruction and we are closer now than ever!

Christ offered man the reconciliation man needs to get back to God, settle with Him and have peace but man likes darkness more than light...he has tasted a bit of freedom and his imagination of what he can achieve without God in his rebellion drives him on. The possibilities are endless!

Meanwhile the ones who have embraced Christ too find it hard to also see the snare posed by achievements outside God.

Most of us Christians believe also that whatever man has achieved was by the essence of God. But we see clearly in Genesis 11 at the building of the tower, that man can make great things happen without God!

And this happens daily. Sin is an achievement that doesn't have respect for God. Man, out of rebellion, make sin happen daily. He contradicts the will of God and willingly boycotts God's plan in order to exercise his desires...

The mentality that whatever happens is caused by God is one of ignorance.
And this is the slippery point of the Christian walk. Being disciples of Christ presupposes that we have left every ambition for Christ and that there's nothing we'll do outside the commandment of Christ. But the spirit of man is hard to tame...the greed, selfishness and pride won't let him be, he wants the glory that comes from personal achievements; he desires to boast...and wouldn't mind abandoning Christ or using Him to achieve the boasts!

It isn't just about what we can do but about what we ought to do; it is about what God wants to do through us! Going by human abilities, possibilities are endless but in Christ we don't control what we do, Christ should!

When we subscribed to being disciples of Jesus, He became Lord over our lives, we become His body and He the Spirit and through us manifest what He desires on the earth...

But we still build babel! We operate from our own will. We see visions based only on possibilities of man ability to achieve and not minding what He wants. We still create things He knows nothing about and all that in His name...

So when the day of accountability comes, and many would give excuses based on what they did in His name...He'll deny them....saying He never knew them...to Him, they'd worked iniquity building Babel!

God's achievements through us is within the operations of grace; the empowerment that comes from within us, as a body possessed by Him to accomplish a kingdom on the earth where righteousness reigns!

The brains and the brawn of man, the intelligence and the determination of man, the wisdom and the hardwork of man can make incredible things happen but without God's control and dominion, man is mere rogue, building nothing more than Babel...and the project won't ever reach completion and satisfaction until God's intervention!

But in total submission to God and working with the grace provided in Christ, man can be all that God wants him to be, enjoying all God's provisions and being satisfied in contentment in the fullness of God!

Jesus said without Him we can do nothing meaning whatever we do without Him is futility and nothingness! If it looks like something today, it will be nothing tomorrow! Treasures laid outside Christ are laid for thieves, rots and moths! And they end up being nothing! But things done in Christ, by His grace and authority are eternal and won't pass with time! Such may be slow in building but sure through eternity! No wonder, He didn't send us to all the world to build empires and great organizations but to raise disciples for Christ, who would be conformed to the image of Christ, zealously doing the will of God from the heart and building the kingdom of God and not of man!

Don't build Babel! Build the Kingdom of God! Do His will with the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness! And your reward will be eternal which no man can take away!

Good Morning!

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