Wouldn't it be nice if we had learned our lesson and had gotten over trying to "make a name for ourselves"?
We may not build towers to surpass God, but we build resumes and build fortunes and build egos to try and make God unnecessary in our lives. Like the ancients, we still believe in God, we still love God, we may even still worship God in a limited way. But we try to forget that we need God and rely on God. We are self-sufficient, thank you very much!
And we still work together to replace God in our lives. As one culture we have built a society that fails to recognize all that we need God for. We have even become disconnected from the sources of our food - seeing only sterile plastic-wrapped meat on styrofoam and produce available regardless of season in shiny piles in an air-conditioned store.
It's easy to see my own guilt when I look at this story. I am ego-filled. And I would like to "make a name for myself". And the glorious title of "stay-at-home-mom" is a continuous blow to my self-image in a culture where that whole issue is a battlefield.
But what has surprised me today is that this story is still about societal sin. The people together built that tower. And our culture today continues to build.
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