New Toy

Sunday May 27th, Genesis 11: 1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. 3 They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth." Give a kid a new toy and they play with it, give an adult a new toy and they try to take over the world. This story is a repeat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Humanity once again tries to take over the god spot. You would think humanity should have matured a bit since then but we all know that our toys have outstripped our ethics. Here is where the church should step in and bring humanity into the conversation about how our toys should help us work for the kingdom, not against it. Alas, with our new military budget that positions our military as the 10th largest economy in the world, a world where thousnads will die today from hunger related causes, I think the body of Christ has abdicated it’s responsibility.