We Need To Empty Our Glasses

It has occurred to me that I have not written a post on the Old Testament, and for that I am sorry so that’s why this post is on a passage in Genesis, one of my favorite books in the Bible. This is a sometimes looked over passage in Genesis 11 verses 1-9 about the tower of Babel. The story jumps out of a distribution of nations, some people thought it was a good idea to build a large tower and then God scattered them. Why is this here? The key is when one guy steps up with the idea and says “’Come let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the earth’” Genesis 11:4. The people of Babel thought they could reach heaven by piling bricks up, they were proud and thought they could be near or like God, and as we’ve seen with the Pharisees God doesn’t like that. The people of Babel were proud and their descendants the Babylonians were just the same. Well how did God respond to this? He spread them out and confused their language. When we’re proud we walk around as if we don’t need God, as if we’re on top of the world as if in our minds we are our own God. And God can’t use proud hearts; He can’t use a full person. Have you ever tried to fill a glass full of water with water? Well it’s pointless when you pour more water in it pours out because the glass is already full, it’s the same way with our hearts God can’t use a person who is full of plans and ideas, someone who says this is exactly what I want and when, no He needs someone who will seek His kingdom and say “What do you want?” The people of Babel had a plan a way to lift themselves up so they may be exalted but that is a place only God should be in.