What tower are you building?
Many people are busy building towers. People build towers to be remembered, to make themselves known, to create a better future, to establish safety and security. We want to have control over our lives, the power to accomplish our desires. Our towers may take various forms: our studies, our careers, our work, our communities.
If we are building a tower for our own purpose, without first coming under the authority of God, such a tower will only lead to much suffering and to the harm of many, even if we may not see it now. Unless, by God’s mercy, He disrupts what we are doing before it gets to that point—like he did for the Tower of Babel (Genesis 10, 11:1-19).
After a little success, it is easy to think we have power. But we eventually must face the reality that without God we are powerless. It is only when we come under the kingdom of God that we are granted the power we really need: the power to overcome sin, to overcome the influence of the world, to overcome evil. It is only then that the things we do can truly be good, and a blessing to many.
Summary by Horace