We remember the tower of Babel. It was man's attempt to reach God through his own power. How many times have we failed in our power to get to God by some other means than the cross? God made a way through Jesus for us to come to Him. In Genesis 11 it talks about the attempt of man to build a tower to heaven.
"And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech."(11:1)
"And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there."(11:2)
"And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar."(11:3)
"And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth."(11:4)
"And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded."(11:5)
"And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to
do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do."(11:6)
"Go to, let us down and their confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."(11:7)
"So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city."(11:8)
"Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth."(11:9)
The Lord had a purpose in this encounter with mankind. Not that God did not want man to find Him, but He knew that this was not the way that man would come to God. I find that man is always trying to find other ways to God. We can only come to God through His Son's blood. There is no need to be confused or confounded, because the message of salvation is simple.
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