Fresh Manna 13 September
MEDITATION SCRIPTURE: “And they said one to another, go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.” (Gen.11:3)
READ: GEN. 11:1-8
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. 8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
You may not fully understand why God had to make such a swift and severe move against the children of Noah, until you go back to the mandate of creation and replenishing of the whole earth. In Gen.9:7, God reformed the mandate of fruitfulness. This mandate was to enable the children of Noah to multiply and fill the whole earth. They were mandated to spread and keep spreading until the earth is filled with mankind. The idea of building a city and a tower that would reach to heaven was a clear contradiction of God’s purpose. “And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.” (Gen.11:3-4).
When certain actions are interpreted in isolation the gravity of the offence may be played down. For instance, reading the story of King Saul and Amalekites, one may be tempted to say, “after all, what Saul did was a common practice among kings in his days.” When a king is defeated, his conqueror may take him along, parade him before the land to show his shame and defeat. But this battle had a spiritual under-tone: God chose to use King Saul to fulfill an oath He swore, being to wipe out Amalek from the face of the earth, but Saul failed. Back to our story; the children of Noah may have boasted in their technological advancement, but Heaven saw a rebellion, a contradiction against divine order. Weigh your actions and thoughts with the scale of divine standards. What you are doing right now may sound good and logical, but does it agree with God’s plan for your life. The word rebellion may sound heavy, but any action, plan, or activity that contradicts divine order, no matter how logical and rational amounts to rebellion.
TURNING POINT: When certain actions are interpreted in isolation, the gravity of the offence may be played down.
PRAYER POINT: LORD, deliver me from the spirit of rebellion.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: PROV.15,16; 2COR.1
Thank you for studying today’s Fresh Manna (The Christian Pentecostal Mission International Daily Devotional) – Rebellion Against Divine Order – written by REV. DR. O. EZEKIEL & REV. DR. M. EZEKIEL
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Fresh Manna 13 September 2021
