Our desire to conquer comes from a good place when not perverted. After all, when you belong to the King, you are a conqueror.
But when we pervert them … when we change the plans and create our own narrative?
What Man Has Built Let God Put Asunder
Genesis 11 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.”
Many believe that this was the creation and brainstorm of Nimrod. And though the text does not directly link him to the evil that God would deal with, it does not matter.
What does matter is that we are not to become something that we were not created to be.
As it was in the garden, so it was in Genesis 11, and so it is throughout the earth: Man is influenced by a fallen nature, and that nature wants to go its own way. And “going your own way” invites in three things:
- Unseen Evil
- Wrong Thinking And Actions
- Death
We want no part in this.
And as I sit and write this today, I pray that God would open your eyes if He has not done so already.
Jesus wants our eyes wide open.
Matthew 24 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
Jesus returned us to Him in His actions on earth, His execution, His resurrection, and His move at Pentecost. We do not have to live like this.
We have an option:
Get Adopted
God sent Jesus to get rid of man’s narrative and replace it with His original, and perfect, plan.
Jesus.
We have a chance to “reverse the curse”.
We can be adopted.
And with that adoption, we have a chance.
As I write this this morning, and revel in His Name, and His plan, and His Kingdom, I am taken aback by the incredible offer to be adopted.
John 1 12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
And so it is.
Get Adopted.
In The Name of the Father and the
Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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