(Second part)
Memory verse (Dan4: 30) “ The king spoke, saying: Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for a royal dwelling by my mighty power and for the honor of my majesty? ”
We have great experiences in doing things our way. But the scripture teaches us to trust in the Lord with all our hearts and lean not on our understanding and in all our ways acknowledge him and he’ll direct our path (Prov3: 5). God expects us to trust him in all things, even with our own lives. Only him can direct us into sweet victories. The scripture teaches us to offer our bodies to the Lord as living sacrifices and get our minds or thinking renewed that we may know the good, acceptable and perfect will of God (Rom12: 1-2) Paul put it this way, that we should not be foolish but understand the will of God. For Paul, ignorance of God’s will for your life is equated to foolishness (Eph5: 17). Lack of knowledge of God’s will is foolishness, because when we walk in our ways, thoughts etc we keep building what will be destroyed. All our efforts outside God’s will are wasted efforts. All works done contrary to God’s will are dead works. The psalmist said: if the Lord does not build the city, the builders labor in Vain. Can you imagine all the resources the people spent on the city and tower of Babel! Can you imagine more than 5million people in America alone who have lost jobs just in one year! Can you imagine empires that men built through the ages and none is standing today!
All we do without God leads to frustration. When God came down to see what the men of Babel where doing, he confused their language and that was the end of their project. Nebuchadnezzar said to him self, look what my power has done and all this is done for my honor. Then God visited him and took away understanding from him and he became insane. Mental institutions are full of men who became insane by their dreams. Suicide rates are escalating in the developed world because of frustrations and unrealized dreams. It’s time we be wise and know that God is God and no man can take his glory. It’s time we know that building our names is a vain investment. It’s time we know that we cannot live without GOD. We cannot succeed without God. God created us to depend on him and to worship him. He created us to live for him.
Tomorrows subject: “Giving Him glory”
