DEPENDENCE - Everyone needs God.

Dependence 1 - English files

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Devotional Thoughts about Genesis 11:1-9

After the flood, God told Noah’s family to have children and populate the earth. To begin filling the huge earth, his descendants would need to spread apart, but they had plans of their own and settled together in a favorable plain at Shinar.

Using clay or mud God had created, the people formed and baked bricks and then extracted resin from the ground to stick them together. With this innovation, they were able to build stable buildings, presumably to replace temporary shelters they had been using.

However, the main focus of their accomplishment didn’t seem to be providing housing for their families; it was rather a statement of their own collective arrogance: a city with an excessively high tower. They must have feared their significance would be diluted if they were scattered (11:4), and this building project at least kept them together.

God, who knew their motivation, recognized it as rebellion against Him. He changed their one language into many, and the resulting confusion ruined the cooperative endeavor. People abandoned the project and left town, ultimately accomplishing the goal that God had intended in the first place.

Lord, never let me believe that I can get along without You just trusting in my own abilities.

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