I would normally feel like I need to apologize for not posting in so long. To feel shame in the fact that my poor little ol blog has sat unnoticed by me for so many long days. But no, I will not apologize. I will simply say my life has been full of the things I love as of late and with those loves filling my days I had to choose to let lesser loves pass by. So yes, this blog is a lesser love, yet still a love, just not as much a love as my wife, my friends, my rest and my sleep.
So apologize for loving the more important things in life, I will not.
But I will say the thoughts that fill my mind this morning. I’m doing the “100 day reading challenge” from the “you version” Bible app on my phone and today I was reading Genesis 11 - The story of the tower of Babel. For most of my life I read this story from a negative lens. The lens that God was insecure at what man could do when they came together, insecure that they might worship their own towers rather then him, insecure that they would just simply be too unified and forget him. So in his insecurity he gets ticked off and made them all start speaking different languages and then kicks them all around the world.
Yeah, that’s my insecure god lens interpretation.
But today I different question came up.
What if this was actually God seeing the lack of creativity in man, the lack of cultural expression, if as he saw the people coming together to unify and build this tower he also saw all the cultural beauty that now marks our planet disappearing. Kind of like how Marty McFly’s family in “back to the future” slowly disappeared as events in the passed were changing.
So was the Tower of Babel about God not wanting man to work together and build a tower or about him protecting the beautiful creativity we now have around our planet?
Thoughts?
