God Keeps Us From Evil
Your instructions keep us close to You.
“They said, ‘Come, let us build a city for ourselves, and a tower whose top will reach into the heavens, and let us make a [famous] name for ourselves, so that we will not be scattered [into separate groups] and be dispersed over the surface of the entire earth [as the Lord instructed].’
Now the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, ‘Behold, they are one [unified] people, and they all have the same language. This is only the beginning of what they will do [in rebellion against Me], and now no evil thing they imagine they can do will be impossible for them. Come, let Us (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) go down and there confuse and mix up their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.’
So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the surface of the entire earth; and they stopped building the city. Therefore the name of the city was Babel — because there the Lord confused the language of the entire earth; and from that place the Lord scattered and dispersed them over the surface of all the earth” (Genesis 11:4–9 AMP).
And now no evil thing they imagine they can do will be impossible for them.
Every command and instruction You give is for our own good — it keeps us from sin and keeps us close to You. In this story of Babel, You intervened once again so that humanity would not be completely taken over by evil.
I am seeing Your heart more and more. Not everyone can see this when reading the Old Testament, but Your decisions are driven by love and a desire to save us from ourselves (and our tendency towards wickedness, depravity, and selfishness).
Because of sin, the human heart is ever bent towards evil and in desperate need of a Savior.
