What are you trying to build?
I like this image because it literally turns things upside down. The tower of Babel is correctly interpreted as a real and symbolic act of the pride of humankind. “Come let’s build a tower that reaches to the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves”.
Are you trying to make a name for yourself? If so, you’re like these people crawling toward the upside down tower. That tower has no chance of standing. It’s goal is upside down.
Are you building so that you can make your name great, or are you building so that God’s name might be seen in your life?
This week we met here for our first session of Letters from Dad. One of the points that came through in the teaching portion was that God has incredible blessings in store for people. Those blessings take on different shapes for different people, but we all receive the greatest blessing, God’s grace.
Then Greg Vaughn brought home an interesting point to follow up on that- the job of parents (he was focusing on dads) is to make sure that we keep passing on that blessing, that we keep building up our house, not for our own name, not to make the “Borkenhagen” name great, but so that people can see the “Borkenhagens” know that God’s name is great.
I hope and pray that in building my family, we’re building toward that goal.
