Feb. 2 – Genesis 11

Being someone who cannot speak a foreign language I can see how confusing and frustrating it is when you cannot communicate.  The movie Babel really does a great job of bringing this to light.  The problems that the language barrier brings.  But, what were the people trying to do.  Build a tower into the sky.  Isn’t that what we do know.  Are our skyscrapers our new Babel.  Or the International Space Station.  The fact that we keep reaching out further and further.  Trying to get to what.  The fact that we can communicate so well with each other, is that leading us somewhere we aren’t suppose to go. 

We will get into some interesting things in our next chapter of Genesis.  At least we may if I remember the discussion we had tonight at or Core meeting.  Just think of the land that God is trying to give His people as a rubber ball that they cannot stay on long without falling off or getting bounced out.  Notice the Abram’s father intended to go to the land of Canaan, but stopped.  We will see an in and out of this land until Moses leads them to it again.  But that still doesn’t last, they are out again when the Babylonians exile them. 

They are booted again when the Romans destroy Jerusalem.  Still to this day there are large groups that do not want Jews in the Holy Land.  We will see that God exiles them because of their chooses sometimes and other times they choose to leave on their own.  What is it about that area that this group cannot find peace there.