// Read: Genesis 11:1-6 //
1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As people moved eastward,[a] they found a plain in Shinar[b] and settled there.
3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 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.”
5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 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.
MEDITATION:
Be careful of strange ambitions this year. Truly, there was a network of people in this passage but of what purpose is this network? Be careful of your “let us” or when people say “let us” to you this year. It is obvious that in this their emergency project of building a city with a tower they were not even ready to use the original materials. The Scripture says:
(1) They had brick for stone, meaning that they were making bricks where they needed to use stones! Be careful of substituting the original with the fake this year.
(2) Slime they had for mortar. Cheap substitutes will not last in the place of focus.
In this New Year, follow right commitment with right instruments.
PRAYER: Father, help me to follow what is right using original tools this New Year in Jesus Name.