And the Lord came down to see...

"And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth." 5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. 6 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. 7 Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech." 8 So the LORD dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. 9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. And from there the LORD dispersed them over the face of all the earth" (Gen 11:1-9).


After the judgment of the flood upon a wicked world, man by God’s grace began once again to multiply on the face of the earth. But in time man once again ceased to seek to glorify the name of the Lord, but instead sought to make a name for themselves. They set out in unity and strength in numbers to build a tower that reached the heavens. I supposed that after they built this tower they would step back and say, “Look at what we've accomplished.” Their words would become a whole lot of babel when God decided to come down to see what they had built. God wasn't impressed and he confounded their languages and scattered them throughout the earth. What does God see when He comes down to check out what you're building in your life? May all we seek to build this coming year be done in dependence upon God and for the glory of His name.