Good morning! How are we faithing? We have a tendency to serve ourselves platitudes when we succeed. We think we are something and forget who made us with the abilities and talents to achieve. If not for our God who actually made all things we would not even be. We work hard to get where we are and sometimes that hard work does deserve a pat and or an accolade but never ever forget that without divine presence you would not even begin to achieve. We are born with talents endowed from on high. Our genes provide certain tendencies that WE had nothing to do with. Be pleased with results but do not think yourself more than what you are. This story brings into focus who and where we can be. It shows a people who thought they had "arrived" and were mightier than they really were. We are made in God's image so we are a very capable species but we are not God. Ask some questions of yourself so you don't become puffed up because you succeed, it could just as easily go the other way.
Genesis 11:1-9
Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words. And it came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly." And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. And they said, "Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name; lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth." And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And 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. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.
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Remember Dulce...remember Stacy and Mya...
Heavenly Father,
We come before you today humbled by your presence. Lord we seek your wisdom. We want to know you more. Lord forgive us when we fail. Forgive us when we look down our noses at others. Lord, help us see with eyes of compassion. Help us discern between what is necessary. Guide our mouths so we do not hurt but bless. In Jesus name, amen
Genesis 11:1-9
Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words. And it came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly." And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. And they said, "Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name; lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth." And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And 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. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.
NAS
Remember Dulce...remember Stacy and Mya...
Heavenly Father,
We come before you today humbled by your presence. Lord we seek your wisdom. We want to know you more. Lord forgive us when we fail. Forgive us when we look down our noses at others. Lord, help us see with eyes of compassion. Help us discern between what is necessary. Guide our mouths so we do not hurt but bless. In Jesus name, amen
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