Song # 1037.2 from Our Gospel In Song Collection by Col Johnston. Have you ever wondered why there are so many different languages around the world? The Book of Genesis tells us in chapter 11, that after the time of Noah, the people of the world had only one language, and the people proposed to build a tower to reach the heavens.
Now the whole world had one language and a common speech (Genesis 11:1). As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar (that is Babylonia) and settled there (Genesis 11:2). They said to each other “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and bitumen for mortar (Genesis 11:3). 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 and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth (Genesis 11:4). But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building (Genesis 11:5). The Lord said “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them” (Genesis 11:6). “Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other” (Genesis 11:7). So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city (Genesis 11:8). That is why it was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth (Genesis 11:9).
Thought for today: enjoy the abundance of God’s gifts, but do not forget the Giver.
Thought for the future: far better to be rich in God, than be rich without Him. Where will you spend your eternity?