The story of the Tower of Babel is alway fascinating to me. Human nature is corrupt any way we slice it. And when two or more corrupt people come together, there is even more corruption. We see that in our governments (not just the USA, but in every government). I believe that our differences are what bring out the best in each other. Not just language, but in everything we do. When we are different from the person next to us, we can work to bring out the good. Our bigger issue is focus… what are we choosing to focus on? The good or the bad in each other and how are we encouraging the good to come out?

Let’s face it, we all make decisions that are not part of God’s plan for us. When Eve decided to take the forbidden fruit, she made it out of selfish ambition. In Genesis 3:6 it says that she saw that the fruit was “pleasing to the eye”, but she also found it to be “desirable for wisdom”, which was the ultimate deciding factor. There was no shortage of fruit that looked pleasing, but she wanted God’s knowledge and thus made her choice. We do the exact same thing. We make choices because we want more based on out limited scope, but if we truly trust in God who has the full picture, we make less missteps and live more fully in His will and be happier for it.