Greetings Tower Dwellers...
"The name of the Lord is a strong tower...the righteous run into it and are safe (secure...set on high)." (Pro-Verbs 18:10)
I just returned from a trip to Chicago...and while there we took a tour on top of a bus...viewing the city. The pride of the city was touted...from the food...to the history...to the intellectual prowess and to the architecture with the largest buildings...the strongest buildings...the most unusual designs in buildings. It was truly amazing to see the unharnessed potential of human beings manifested in large and tall edifices.
I remember back to 9/11...when two large airliners were plowed into the side of the Twin Towers in New York City by terrorists...and the towers came crumbling down with thousands of lives lost...and shock, despair, fear, anger and disdain swept across our nation. In those two tall towers...nobody was safe...secure...set on high.
There was another tower in history...in the land of Shinar. At that time the whole earth had ONE LANGUAGE and ONE SPEECH. (Genesis 11:1) These were descendants of Noah (post flood) and had returned to their pagan ways. As they rolled into the land/plains of Shinar, they said..."Come, let us build ourselves a CITY...and a TOWER...whose top is in the heavens; let us make a NAME for ourselves...lest we be SCATTERED ABROAD OVER THE FACE OF THE WHOLE EARTH." (Genesis 11:4)
These one language/speech talking people...thought that their security would be in a city, a tower, a name (to be feared)...and that be binding together...the would NOT be scattered over the face of the whole earth. The only problem is that they DID NOT include God into their plans.
The Lord came down to see the city...and the tower...that the sons of men had built. This is the Lord's observation..."And the Lord said Indeed the people are ONE (united)...and they all have ONE LANGUAGE (code of speech)...and this is what they begin to do...now NOTHING THAT THEY PROPOSE TO DO WILL BE WITHHELD FROM THEM." (Genesis 11:6)
The Amplified Bible states it this way..."...Behold, they are one people, and they have ALL ONE LANGUAGE...and this is only the beginning of what they will do; and NOW NOTHING THEY HAVE IMAGINED THEY CAN DO WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE TO THEM."
(Genesis 11:6)
Wow...man's imagination can harness the impossible. That's not a surprise to me. God is the ultimate Creative Being...and the Creative Being CREATED us in HIS IMAGE...so we as humans have a CREATIVITY IN US. The problem is...our choice...as with Adam and Eve... and we can choose to OBEY...and have this creativity to flow or we can DISOBEY...and have creativity stifled.
The cause and effect of their ONE LANGUAGE/ONE PURPOSE...was the Lord SCATTERING them. The very thing that they FEARED...came upon them. "So the Lord SCATTERED THEM abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and THEY CEASED BUILDING THE CITY. Therefore its NAME is called BABLE (mixed up/confused) because the Lord confused the LANGUAGE of all the earth; and from there the Lord SCATTERED them abroad over the face of the earth." (Genesis 11:8-9)
Their purpose and tower were scattered...compared to THE NAME OF THE LORD...which was a STRONG TOWER...and instead of being scattered...they were (1) safe(2) secure (3) set on high (away from the enemy trying to get at them).
The NAME OF THE LORD...is where we run into. The ONE LORD...has many names to describe is multiple colours. From Jehovah-Jireh (supply), Jehovah-Tsidkenu (righteousness),
Jehovah-Shalom (peace), Jehovah-Nissi (banner), Jehovah-Rhoi (shepherd)...and on and on and on and on. Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Prince of Peace, Jesus (God is Salvation), Emmanuel (God With Us), Lord (one in control). This just scratches the surface of our STRONG TOWER.
I have found since 1970...when I plan something to lift me up...I am SCATTERED...but when I run into the NAME OF THE LORD...my STRONG TOWER...I am SAFE...SECURE...and SET ON HIGH with a God's eye view of my life.
Love and Safe Kisses
Rodney "In The Strong Tower" Boyd
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