07 July 2014

The Crimson Thread – The Tower of Babel

Greetings Dear Reader,

There are a couple of things in this story that we do not recognize unless we look for them.  First is that God viewed man’s ability to advance as something that needed hindrance.  Second is that God acknowledges that nothing is impossible for us.

His approach is to confound language.  God establishes that communication is the key to our advancement.  As we lose our ability to communicate we lose the power to work together to create.  We are sub-creators.  We are designed by God to innovate, discover, explore, and build.

When we acquired a sinful nature we learned to turn that creativity to evil things.  The story of Babel does not imply that the people there were doing anything evil.  It does imply that to keep man safe from his own evil God had to slow him down.  Once again the Father acts to give us time to get to the Son.

God is involved in the lives of his creation.  He wants to redeem us.  All of the power and strength of his original creation cannot be allowed to continue if we are to make it to the cross.  I must see the intervention at Babel as God communicating to me that he is working.  He is on his way but must do it by the rules he has laid out for us all.

Wishing you joy in the journey,

Aramis Thorn

Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure store."

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