The Tower of Babel

This evening's blog post will be more of a post about a bible story rather than encouragement. I hope that this is cool with you all! It won't be as long as the last couple, so that will be nice and convenient. I have been reading the book of Genesis and came across a story in Genesis chapter 11. The story is about The Tower of Babel. I don't know if you have ever heard of it before. I have read through it a couple of times in the past but never really read between the lines and understood the story.

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar from mortar. Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth." But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. The Lord said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other." So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel-becuase there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth. (Genesis 11:1-8)

Imagine the world world having one language and a common speech. Then people of this world wanted to build a tower that was going to reach to the heavens. I think that sounds so amazing. I cannot fathom the world being so united and tougher. I want to say, imagine today's present day world being so united...think of what could be accomplished. Unfortunately, that is not the way it is. Something that sticks out to me is that God said: "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them." Is God saying that if we all spoke the same language nothing would be impossible? Remember nothing is impossible for God and we are capable of so many things through Christ. We can do all things!

This post was a little different than normal...I believe that different is good and I hope that enjoyed reading about a story that might not be the most popular in the bible.

One more thing, I don't know how many of you have seen Black Panther...but this story reminds me of the movie. The people of Wakanda had their little secret, and their power was unlimited with it. Do you see the similarities?