Promise 24 Gen. 11:6-8

Gen. 11: 6-8 - "The Lord said, 'Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down there and confuse their language so that they will not understand one another's speech.' So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city." I can't help but think of the church when I read this. Many of our western churches can get so focused on their projects that get them closer to heaven, they get so inward focused. They have their plan and their goal and their strategies, all packaged. It's a church growth package to build it high up to heaven. What they miss is the "Us" factor. God said, "Look at what the people are doing, once they get their minds together to do something, nothing will stop them, so let US go down and scatter them, shake them up, remind them of who WE are." The church gets too focused on the stuff they have control over, that they forget to factor in God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. They get so set on their will they forget to consider God's will. God never intended the church to be contained in one tower, the church was always meant to "go", to be scattered, to cover all the lands. They are to look to the Spirit and allow Him to spread them to where God wants them to be. God wants them to take Jesus into all the world with them. May the Lord break down the towers of our day and promise to spread the church throughout the nations!