From Eden to Egypt Day 17

Then they said to each other, “Let’s build a city and a tower for ourselves, whose top will reach high into the sky. We will become famous. Then we will not be scattered over all the earth.”- Genesis 11:4 (NCV)

Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not be able to understand each other.- Genesis 11:7 (NCV)

The place is called Babel since that is where the Lord confused the language of the whole world. So the Lord caused them to spread out from there over the whole world.- Genesis 11:9 (NCV)

I believe James the brother of the Lord said it best in his epistle: "But you do not know what will happen tomorrow! Your life is like a mist. You can see it for a short time, but then it goes away. So you should say, “If the Lord wants, we will live and do this or that” (James 4:14-15, NCV).  Perhaps, as I think on it, we can begin to see how the Word compliments and confirms itself.

God has a will.  We can either be in it or out of it.  There is no middle of the road or fence to straddle when it comes to His will.  To be in His will, you experience an abundant joy that seems to permeate and radiate from deep within you beyond normal understanding.  To be out of His will, it feels as if you are constantly condemned and perpetually punished.  You feel forgotten and forsaken when you find yourself outside of God's will.

God doesn't intend for you to go there, but you have that option.  You see, He endowed you with a free will.  You make choices.  You make moral choices, life decisions, and those have impacts and sometimes even consequences. 

These people started out simple with a shared idea, and then it grew into something totally different that became about them and not God.  It was about gaining notoriety and fame, not giving God the glory and praise.  It was all about them with little to do with God.

See where God stepped in.  See how God stepped in.  Learn the lesson.  In His will = good.  Out of His will = look-out time.  He has something ready for those in either category. 

Where are you with God? In His will or ...?